Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 66

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

smyks.uk

Beads and jewelry making parts - all you need for making jewelry at one place

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

854 ms

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About Website

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At smyks.com you will find all you need for jewelry making and beading with a touch of Scandinavia. From our shops in Copenhagen and our webshop we have been offering and developing a wide range of un...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smyks.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 4.7 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

smyks.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,660 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.517

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.smyks.com

1373 ms

font-awesome.dirty.min.css

526 ms

libs.css

642 ms

template.css

546 ms

theme.css

550 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Smyks.uk, 12% (7 requests) were made to Smyks.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Smyks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.0 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

549.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Smyks.uk main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 509.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 451.0 kB

  • Original 509.4 kB
  • After minification 296.5 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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 212.9 kB, which is 42% 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 451.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 154.9 kB
  • After minification 150.1 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. Smyks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 278.2 kB
  • After minification 278.2 kB
  • After compression 276.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 66.4 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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. Smyks.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (46%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smyks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smyks.uk accessibility score

70

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

smyks.uk best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

smyks.uk SEO score

66

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Smyks.uk 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 Smyks.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Smyks. 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: