Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

sigmasports.com

Sigma Sports: Your Premium Cycling and Multisport Retailer

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

sigmasports.com screenshot

About Website

Visit sigmasports.com now to see the best up-to-date Sigma Sports content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sigmasports.com

Shop our range of cycling, running and triathlon brands. With fast checkout, next day delivery options and easy returns, your adventure starts today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sigmasports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sigmasports.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sigmasports.com

196 ms

www.sigmasports.com

920 ms

cms-full-width-hero-image-block.4763639a73d9af124e48.css

473 ms

cms-mosaic-blocks.3d46e99b572e1be83aa3.css

484 ms

cms-premium-blocks.83fba90304837624b8d5.css

485 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Sigmasports.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Sigmasports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 531.6 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

714.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sigmasports.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 591.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 529.7 kB

  • Original 591.6 kB
  • After minification 486.7 kB
  • After compression 61.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 104.9 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 529.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 351.1 kB
  • After minification 351.1 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Sigma Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 95.7 kB
  • After compression 94.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 288 B

  • Original 207.3 kB
  • After minification 207.3 kB
  • After compression 207.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Sigmasports.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (80%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sigma Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sigmasports.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

sigmasports.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sigmasports.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sigmasports.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Sigmasports.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sigma Sports. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: