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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

craftshopsuk.co.uk

Craft Shops UK - Arts & Crafts Supplies - Online Craft Stores Directory

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craftshopsuk.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 5.7 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

craftshopsuk.co.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.craftshopsuk.co.uk

125 ms

styles.css

121 ms

csuk.css

186 ms

styles-mobile.css

202 ms

jsapi

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Craftshopsuk.co.uk, 60% (34 requests) were made to Assets.toastpublishing.co.uk and 11% (6 requests) were made to Media.toastpublishing.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) relates to the external source Assets.toastpublishing.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

294.7 kB

After Optimization

268.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Craftshopsuk.co.uk main page is 294.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 184.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 4.9 kB, which is 20% 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 19.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 184.9 kB
  • After minification 182.4 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. Craft Shops UK images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 75.7 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 73.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Craftshopsuk.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (31%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craft Shops UK. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.craftshopsuk.co.uk

www.craftshopsuk.co.uk

125 ms

styles.css

styles.css

121 ms

csuk.css

csuk.css

186 ms

styles-mobile.css

styles-mobile.css

202 ms

jsapi

jsapi

25 ms

general.js

general.js

164 ms

otherjs.js

otherjs.js

195 ms

mobile.js

mobile.js

194 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

196 ms

loader.js

loader.js

20 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

74 ms

ga.js

ga.js

87 ms

5-logo.png

5-logo.png

3763 ms

wilde-about-crafts-haverfordwest.gif

wilde-about-crafts-haverfordwest.gif

732 ms

body-background.png

body-background.png

92 ms

redTab.png

redTab.png

91 ms

orangeTab.png

orangeTab.png

1724 ms

yellowTab.png

yellowTab.png

91 ms

lightGreenTab.png

lightGreenTab.png

1726 ms

mediumGreenTab.png

mediumGreenTab.png

3734 ms

turquoiseTab.png

turquoiseTab.png

3737 ms

lightBlueTab.png

lightBlueTab.png

4732 ms

mediumBlueTab.png

mediumBlueTab.png

3731 ms

darkBlueTab.png

darkBlueTab.png

4734 ms

purpleTab1.png

purpleTab1.png

4733 ms

purpleTab2.png

purpleTab2.png

4735 ms

pinkTab.png

pinkTab.png

4734 ms

blackTab.png

blackTab.png

4735 ms

topbar.png

topbar.png

4803 ms

searchBox.gif

searchBox.gif

4795 ms

searchButton.png

searchButton.png

4798 ms

genericSidebarBackg.png

genericSidebarBackg.png

4802 ms

genericSidebarFooter.png

genericSidebarFooter.png

4801 ms

sidePanelTop.png

sidePanelTop.png

4798 ms

sidePanelBottom.png

sidePanelBottom.png

4854 ms

centreBoxBackg.png

centreBoxBackg.png

4989 ms

subPageFooter.png

subPageFooter.png

4922 ms

autoborder_50.png

autoborder_50.png

4998 ms

footerHeader.png

footerHeader.png

4970 ms

footerFooter.png

footerFooter.png

4998 ms

wilde-about-crafts-haverfordwest-thumb.gif

wilde-about-crafts-haverfordwest-thumb.gif

2738 ms

calder-colours-factory-coalville.gif

calder-colours-factory-coalville.gif

2743 ms

calder-colours-factory-coalville-thumb.gif

calder-colours-factory-coalville-thumb.gif

2735 ms

aldridge-crafts-attleborough.gif

aldridge-crafts-attleborough.gif

2750 ms

aldridge-crafts-attleborough-thumb.gif

aldridge-crafts-attleborough-thumb.gif

4743 ms

twitter_footer.png

twitter_footer.png

4729 ms

5-add-shop-header.png

5-add-shop-header.png

3726 ms

content_5207.png

content_5207.png

3796 ms

5-find-by-location.gif

5-find-by-location.gif

3726 ms

5-add-shop.png

5-add-shop.png

4752 ms

5-find-by-specialism.gif

5-find-by-specialism.gif

3752 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

508 ms

zrt_lookup_nohtml.html

zrt_lookup_nohtml.html

53 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

ads

ads

30 ms

mobile_search.png

mobile_search.png

4373 ms

mobile_menu.png

mobile_menu.png

4464 ms

Accessibility Review

craftshopsuk.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Best Practices

craftshopsuk.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

craftshopsuk.co.uk SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

craftshopsuk.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Craft Shops UK. 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: