Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

swatchbox.com

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Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

8.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Swatchbox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

swatchbox.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

swatchbox.com

220 ms

www.swatchbox.com

199 ms

v3

249 ms

js

608 ms

preload.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Swatchbox.com, 14% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Bimsmith.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 458.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Swatchbox.com main page is 4.1 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. 85% 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 80.5 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 65.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 391.3 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Swatchbox images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 949 B

  • Original 80.4 kB
  • After minification 80.4 kB
  • After compression 79.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 146 B

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Swatchbox.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (29%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Swatchbox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

swatchbox.com accessibility score

84

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

swatchbox.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

swatchbox.com SEO score

75

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

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