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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thegap.com

Shop Latest Offers + Gap Women’s, Men’s, Baby & Kids Clothing

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

64 ms

thegap.com screenshot

About Website

Visit thegap.com now to see the best up-to-date The Gap content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thegap.com

Discover casual clothing for women, men, kids, and baby at Gap. Stylish, comfy, and modern pieces for the whole family. Enjoy special deals on jeans, tees & more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegap.com page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegap.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.099

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegap.com

155 ms

www.gap.com

140 ms

www.gap.com

78 ms

www.gap.com

476 ms

react17.0.2.min.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thegap.com, 88% (42 requests) were made to Gap.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Gapprod.a.bigcontent.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (476 ms) relates to the external source Gap.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (71%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

552.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegap.com main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 378.6 kB

  • Original 455.0 kB
  • After minification 454.5 kB
  • After compression 76.4 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 378.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 948.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 475.1 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 948.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 697 B
  • After minification 697 B
  • After compression 676 B

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. Thegap.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (82%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gap. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegap.com

thegap.com

155 ms

www.gap.com

www.gap.com

140 ms

www.gap.com

www.gap.com

78 ms

www.gap.com

www.gap.com

476 ms

react17.0.2.min.js

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58 ms

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56 ms

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87 ms

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33 ms

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65 ms

logo_gap--light.svg

logo_gap--light.svg

187 ms

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64 ms

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67 ms

logo_gap--dark.svg

logo_gap--dark.svg

215 ms

config.json

config.json

43 ms

PzY

PzY

69 ms

sec-4-4.css

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124 ms

sec-cpt-4-4.js

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122 ms

Accessibility Review

thegap.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

thegap.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

thegap.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use 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 Thegap.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 Thegap.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

thegap.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Gap. 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: