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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

creativegrids.com

Creative Grids (UK) LTD

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Creative Grids content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about creativegrids.com

Creative Grids supply non-slip Quilting rulers, Jelly Roll Rulers, Strip Rulers, Self Healing cutting mats, wadding, Batting, Books, Rotary cutters, notions, patterns, scissors, Pam & Nicky Lintott, h...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Creativegrids.com page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

creativegrids.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

creativegrids.com

255 ms

creativegrids.com

357 ms

actinic.css

169 ms

jquery-1.11.1.js

392 ms

jquery.bxslider.js

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Creativegrids.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (644 ms) belongs to the original domain Creativegrids.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

448.9 kB

After Optimization

396.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Creativegrids.com main page is 448.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 370.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 52.1 kB

  • Original 60.9 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 11.7 kB, which is 19% 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 52.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 187 B

  • Original 370.8 kB
  • After minification 370.7 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. Creative Grids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (53%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Creative Grids. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

creativegrids.com

creativegrids.com

255 ms

creativegrids.com

creativegrids.com

357 ms

actinic.css

actinic.css

169 ms

jquery-1.11.1.js

jquery-1.11.1.js

392 ms

jquery.bxslider.js

jquery.bxslider.js

245 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

246 ms

actiniccore.js

actiniccore.js

246 ms

actinicextras.js

actinicextras.js

338 ms

actinicsearch.js

actinicsearch.js

341 ms

responsive.js

responsive.js

325 ms

recentproductssupport.js

recentproductssupport.js

327 ms

dynamic.js

dynamic.js

325 ms

Act_section_tree.js

Act_section_tree.js

405 ms

topbanner.jpg

topbanner.jpg

644 ms

rulers.jpg

rulers.jpg

643 ms

home-wadding.jpg

home-wadding.jpg

422 ms

home-mats.jpg

home-mats.jpg

423 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

466 ms

home-books.jpg

home-books.jpg

482 ms

home-new.jpg

home-new.jpg

507 ms

home-notions.jpg

home-notions.jpg

506 ms

home-threads.jpg

home-threads.jpg

547 ms

home-cutting.jpg

home-cutting.jpg

561 ms

home-patterns.jpg

home-patterns.jpg

591 ms

sage_pay_logo.png

sage_pay_logo.png

591 ms

theme.css

theme.css

462 ms

bGround.jpg

bGround.jpg

93 ms

bgroundLeft.jpg

bgroundLeft.jpg

86 ms

bgroundRight.jpg

bgroundRight.jpg

80 ms

bgroundTopnav.jpg

bgroundTopnav.jpg

81 ms

bgroundMiddlenav.jpg

bgroundMiddlenav.jpg

80 ms

innerBground.jpg

innerBground.jpg

81 ms

sectionBground.gif

sectionBground.gif

122 ms

ga.js

ga.js

21 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

emailOver.jpg

emailOver.jpg

85 ms

videoOver.jpg

videoOver.jpg

87 ms

newOver.jpg

newOver.jpg

82 ms

specialOver.jpg

specialOver.jpg

82 ms

logOver.jpg

logOver.jpg

81 ms

Accessibility Review

creativegrids.com accessibility score

51

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

creativegrids.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

creativegrids.com SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Creativegrids.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 Creativegrids.com 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

creativegrids.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Creative Grids. 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: