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craftshq.com.au

Australia's online craft directory of craft supplies and craft ideas - Crafts [HQ]

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

647 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

404 ms

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About Website

Welcome to craftshq.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Crafts HQ best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about craftshq.com.au

The essential online destination for arts and crafts including Australia's craft directory, craft supplies, craft articles, scrapbooking, sewing, quilting, beads, kniting and arts supplies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craftshq.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 647 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

craftshq.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

craftshq.com.au

647 ms

www.craftshq.com.au

936 ms

main.css

557 ms

dd.css

563 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

840 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Craftshq.com.au, 8% (5 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Craftshq.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 208.4 kB (54%)

Content Size

387.3 kB

After Optimization

178.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Craftshq.com.au main page is 387.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 156.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 50.1 kB

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.4 kB, which is 12% 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 50.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 117.4 kB
  • After minification 101.4 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. Obviously, Crafts HQ needs image optimization as it can save up to 16.0 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 156.1 kB
  • After minification 123.2 kB
  • After compression 56.6 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 99.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 53.3 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Craftshq.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (64%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crafts HQ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

craftshq.com.au

craftshq.com.au

647 ms

www.craftshq.com.au

www.craftshq.com.au

936 ms

main.css

main.css

557 ms

dd.css

dd.css

563 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

840 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

567 ms

avantic.js

avantic.js

846 ms

ui.datepicker.js

ui.datepicker.js

899 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

837 ms

jquery.dd.js

jquery.dd.js

839 ms

jquery.tabs.pack.js

jquery.tabs.pack.js

849 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

1108 ms

google_service.js

google_service.js

13 ms

base.css

base.css

555 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

556 ms

advertisercentre.css

advertisercentre.css

564 ms

directory.css

directory.css

569 ms

content.css

content.css

638 ms

menuBar.css

menuBar.css

826 ms

select.css

select.css

819 ms

browse.css

browse.css

820 ms

businessphase.css

businessphase.css

827 ms

flora.datepicker.css

flora.datepicker.css

842 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

935 ms

jquery.tabs.css

jquery.tabs.css

1096 ms

google_ads.js

google_ads.js

15 ms

background.gif

background.gif

318 ms

default.jpg

default.jpg

35 ms

default.jpg

default.jpg

46 ms

default.jpg

default.jpg

90 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

303 ms

button-search.gif

button-search.gif

344 ms

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345 ms

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825 ms

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313 ms

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605 ms

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649 ms

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657 ms

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button-play-video.gif

643 ms

ads

ads

55 ms

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76 ms

osd.js

osd.js

17 ms

ads

ads

33 ms

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60 ms

site-search-bg.gif

site-search-bg.gif

475 ms

site-search-icon.gif

site-search-icon.gif

746 ms

left-menu-bg.gif

left-menu-bg.gif

793 ms

right-menu-bg.gif

right-menu-bg.gif

791 ms

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search-box-head-bg.gif

786 ms

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795 ms

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box-head-bg.gif

976 ms

box-head-icon.gif

box-head-icon.gif

1042 ms

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cloud-bg.gif

1373 ms

ads

ads

30 ms

ads

ads

38 ms

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68 ms

ads

ads

35 ms

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70 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

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__utm.gif

14 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

868 ms

dd_arrow2.gif

dd_arrow2.gif

878 ms

printer.css

printer.css

281 ms

SEO Factors

craftshq.com.au SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Craftshq.com.au 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 Craftshq.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

craftshq.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Crafts HQ. 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: