Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

shopify.dev

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Page Load Speed

985 ms in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

517 ms

Page Rendered

309 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shopify.dev page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 826 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shopify.dev performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shopify.dev

159 ms

css2

61 ms

application-c79feeee3f80ad685a6c790f3cd71ddfb912abb5fd036190cf33efea8bd3cafd.css

65 ms

app_ui_components_Icon_Icon_scss-app_ui_components_Tooltip_Tooltip_scss-app_ui_components_Too-526561-2482712ea477380df6aa3e3f2ac5c242e147d750de3ce39433419c0a6a5948dc.css

109 ms

app_ui_components_MarkdownRenderer_MarkdownRenderer_tsx-app_ui_components_MarkdownRenderer_in-371d2d-6dd2d732c146424fc28176d1b75de59b3cbe83ca83900d2aa144b526d7b2ac9b.css

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shopify.dev, 90% (36 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (159 ms) belongs to the original domain Shopify.dev.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 366.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Shopify.dev main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 869.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 198.6 kB

  • Original 263.9 kB
  • After minification 259.5 kB
  • After compression 65.3 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 198.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 81.1 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. Shopify images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 111.0 kB

  • Original 869.8 kB
  • After minification 869.8 kB
  • After compression 758.9 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 111.0 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 257.6 kB
  • After minification 257.6 kB
  • After compression 205.9 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. Shopify.dev needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (82%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shopify. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shopify.dev accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shopify.dev 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

SEO Factors

shopify.dev SEO score

88

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 Shopify.dev 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 Shopify.dev 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 Shopify. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: