Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

longtailknits.com

Home LTKnits

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

3.7 sec

longtailknits.com screenshot

About Website

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Local yarn shop that supplies yarn, needles, hooks and other items for knitting and crochet. Felting, spinning and weaving items available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Longtailknits.com page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

longtailknits.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,690 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

longtailknits.com

208 ms

t.js

46 ms

viewer.css

34 ms

viewer.js

61 ms

6fbc37f175a74148a6485552eeb59fe5.js

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Longtailknits.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Wzuk.blob.core.windows.net and 8% (3 requests) were made to Storage.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (874 ms) relates to the external source Webzaitest.blob.core.windows.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 587.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

21.0 MB

After Optimization

20.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Longtailknits.com main page is 21.0 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. 75% 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 20.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 229.6 kB

  • Original 255.1 kB
  • After minification 255.1 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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 229.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 357.5 kB

  • Original 20.8 MB
  • After minification 20.4 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. Longtailknits images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 20 B

  • Original 44 B
  • After minification 24 B
  • After compression 24 B

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 20 B or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Longtailknits. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

longtailknits.com accessibility score

55

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

longtailknits.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

longtailknits.com SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Longtailknits.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 Longtailknits.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 description is not detected on the main page of Longtailknits. 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: