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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

stitchfiddle.com

Stitch Fiddle | Online knitting and cross stitch chart pattern editor software

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

299 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

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About Website

Welcome to stitchfiddle.com homepage info - get ready to check Stitch Fiddle best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about stitchfiddle.com

Stitch Fiddle is a free online knitting and embroidery chart pattern maker.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stitchfiddle.com page load time and found that the first response time was 299 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stitchfiddle.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stitchfiddle.com

299 ms

www.stitchfiddle.com

480 ms

en

411 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

568 ms

layout.css

754 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Stitchfiddle.com, 67% (18 requests) were made to Cdn.stitchfiddle.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.stitchfiddle.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 836.9 kB (73%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

310.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stitchfiddle.com main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 538.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 314.7 kB

  • Original 361.4 kB
  • After minification 361.3 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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 314.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 78.7 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. Stitch Fiddle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 381.1 kB

  • Original 538.5 kB
  • After minification 529.8 kB
  • After compression 157.4 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 381.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 136.6 kB

  • Original 163.8 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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. Stitchfiddle.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (41%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stitch Fiddle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stitchfiddle.com

stitchfiddle.com

299 ms

www.stitchfiddle.com

www.stitchfiddle.com

480 ms

en

en

411 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

568 ms

layout.css

layout.css

754 ms

css

css

50 ms

editor.js

editor.js

1128 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

680 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

36 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

189 ms

arrow1.png

arrow1.png

178 ms

arrow2.png

arrow2.png

187 ms

gauge.jpg

gauge.jpg

261 ms

apple-touch-icon-180x180.png

apple-touch-icon-180x180.png

278 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

277 ms

ravelry2.png

ravelry2.png

357 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

354 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

180 ms

8.gif

8.gif

348 ms

134 ms

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001-obl235s-8wo4ct.png

189 ms

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203 ms

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201 ms

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031-obl2363-83q4rq.png

278 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

368 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

40 ms

Accessibility Review

stitchfiddle.com accessibility score

63

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

stitchfiddle.com 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

stitchfiddle.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Stitchfiddle.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 Stitchfiddle.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

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