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freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com

Yarn and Free Knitting and Crochet Patterns | Lion Brand Yarn

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

386 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com

173 ms

newScripts.js

291 ms

cookieProcessor.js

420 ms

setCSS.js

425 ms

ga_social_tracking.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com, 28% (34 requests) were made to Cache.lionbrand.com and 11% (13 requests) were made to Lionbrand.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 546.3 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

811.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 93.4 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 17.8 kB, which is 17% 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 93.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 344.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 765.9 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, Free Knitting Patterns Lion Brand needs image optimization as it can save up to 344.7 kB or 31% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 44.0 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 44.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 64.2 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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. Freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (16%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Knitting Patterns Lion Brand. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com SEO score

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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 Freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.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 Freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Free Knitting Patterns Lion Brand. 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: