Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thegaffer.com

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Page Load Speed

26.4 sec in total

First Response

9.7 sec

Resources Loaded

16.4 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegaffer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9.7 sec and then it took 16.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegaffer.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,090 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegaffer.com

9736 ms

css

25 ms

autoptimize_62092bf0197312dc86e12be755f52dcf.css

172 ms

autoptimize_e924ffa8660d1de59d054ccfdcd90f77.css

256 ms

show_ads.js

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Thegaffer.com, 13% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thegaffer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

669.3 kB

After Optimization

499.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Thegaffer.com main page is 669.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 430.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 37.5 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 29.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 430.9 kB
  • After minification 429.6 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. The Gaffer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 31.0 kB

  • Original 64.2 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 31.0 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 107.9 kB

  • Original 136.7 kB
  • After minification 136.4 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Thegaffer.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 107.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (35%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gaffer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thegaffer.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

thegaffer.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thegaffer.com SEO score

90

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thegaffer.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 Thegaffer.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 The Gaffer. 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: