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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thebirdshed.com

Shop Bird Supplies and Accessories Online | The Bird Shed

Page Load Speed

20.6 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

20.1 sec

Page Rendered

355 ms

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About Website

Visit thebirdshed.com now to see the best up-to-date The Bird Shed content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thebirdshed.com

The Bird Shed is your primary source for birding and small critter supplies and accessories, from feeders, food, baths, houses, décor, and more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebirdshed.com page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 20.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebirdshed.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thebirdshed.com

113 ms

incentrakiii-styles.css

20 ms

scframework.js

59 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

88 ms

plusone.js

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Thebirdshed.com, 37% (47 requests) were made to Ep.yimg.com and 20% (25 requests) were made to Lib.store.yahoo.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Upfront.thefind.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 691.8 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

475.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebirdshed.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 704.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 59.3 kB

  • Original 75.7 kB
  • After minification 73.8 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 59.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 359.6 kB

  • Original 704.3 kB
  • After minification 344.7 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, The Bird Shed needs image optimization as it can save up to 359.6 kB or 51% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 252.4 kB

  • Original 360.6 kB
  • After minification 317.6 kB
  • After compression 108.3 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 252.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 26.6 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. Thebirdshed.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (37%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Bird Shed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thebirdshed.com

www.thebirdshed.com

113 ms

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20 ms

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Accessibility Review

thebirdshed.com accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thebirdshed.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

SEO Factors

thebirdshed.com SEO score

90

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebirdshed.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 Thebirdshed.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

thebirdshed.com

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