Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

derryhicksticks.com

Handmade Walking Sticks; Natural Blackthorn, Irish Shillelagh, Hazel – DerryhickSticks

Page Load Speed

14.4 sec in total

First Response

4 sec

Resources Loaded

8.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Welcome to derryhicksticks.com homepage info - get ready to check Derryhick Sticks best content right away, or after learning these important things about derryhicksticks.com

I produce one piece walking sticks in rural West of Ireland from many woods, Alder, Ash, Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Hazel, Holly, Rhododendron and other native species. They are made entirely by hand and a...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Derryhicksticks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4 sec and then it took 10.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

derryhicksticks.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,210 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.derryhicksticks.com

3979 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

256 ms

style.min.css

248 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

236 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Derryhicksticks.com, 22% (34 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 11% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Derryhicksticks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (31%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Derryhicksticks.com main page is 5.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 104.6 kB

  • Original 127.9 kB
  • After minification 123.5 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 104.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 MB

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. Derryhick Sticks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 319.4 kB

  • Original 555.5 kB
  • After minification 536.4 kB
  • After compression 236.1 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 319.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 279.6 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. Derryhicksticks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 126 (93%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Derryhick Sticks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 74 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 54 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

derryhicksticks.com accessibility score

94

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

derryhicksticks.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

derryhicksticks.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Derryhick Sticks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: