Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

softslate.com

Java shopping cart and custom ecommerce solutions from SoftSlate of Schenectady, NY

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

756 ms

softslate.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Softslate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

softslate.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

softslate.com

149 ms

www.softslate.com

214 ms

base.css

68 ms

orangecrush.css

44 ms

custom.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Softslate.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Seal.godaddy.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (433 ms) relates to the external source Seal.godaddy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.1 kB (62%)

Content Size

507.9 kB

After Optimization

190.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Softslate.com main page is 507.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 397.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 91 B

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.0 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. Soft Slate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 250.6 kB

  • Original 397.2 kB
  • After minification 397.0 kB
  • After compression 146.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 250.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.9 kB

  • Original 56.3 kB
  • After minification 49.7 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Softslate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (65%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soft Slate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

softslate.com accessibility score

89

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

softslate.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

softslate.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    >

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Softslate.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Softslate.com main page’s claimed encoding is >. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Soft Slate. 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: