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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

westelm.us

West Elm: Modern Furniture, Home Decor, Lighting & More

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

3.3 sec

westelm.us screenshot

About Website

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West Elm offers modern furniture and home decor featuring inspiring designs and colors. Create a stylish space with home accessories from West Elm.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westelm.us page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westelm.us performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.157

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westelm.us

185 ms

www.westelm.com

267 ms

international.css

163 ms

homepage-richrelevance.css

163 ms

homepage.css

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Westelm.us, 59% (61 requests) were made to Assets.weimgs.com and 26% (27 requests) were made to Westelm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source F.vimeocdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.4 kB (61%)

Content Size

542.1 kB

After Optimization

212.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westelm.us main page is 542.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 263.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 203.8 kB

  • Original 253.8 kB
  • After minification 253.6 kB
  • After compression 49.9 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 203.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 125.5 kB

  • Original 263.9 kB
  • After minification 261.6 kB
  • After compression 138.4 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 125.5 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Westelm.us has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (74%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Elm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

westelm.us

westelm.us

185 ms

www.westelm.com

www.westelm.com

267 ms

international.css

international.css

163 ms

homepage-richrelevance.css

homepage-richrelevance.css

163 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

162 ms

new-core.css

new-core.css

161 ms

accordion-supernav-banners.css

accordion-supernav-banners.css

161 ms

fully-fluid-hp-template.css

fully-fluid-hp-template.css

160 ms

ecm-hp-premier-day.css

ecm-hp-premier-day.css

161 ms

scroller-hub-v2.css

scroller-hub-v2.css

161 ms

recommendationsFlyout.css

recommendationsFlyout.css

161 ms

RecommendationService.css

RecommendationService.css

160 ms

recommendations.css

recommendations.css

160 ms

curalate-fanreel.css

curalate-fanreel.css

160 ms

visitor.441.js

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15 ms

domutils.180.js

domutils.180.js

35 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

30 ms

webcomponents-bundle.js

webcomponents-bundle.js

29 ms

mapcontrol

mapcontrol

48 ms

experimentationPlatformReporting.js

experimentationPlatformReporting.js

27 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

24 ms

ToolBox.js

ToolBox.js

143 ms

affirm.js

affirm.js

37 ms

catalog.js

catalog.js

42 ms

email-submit-button.js

email-submit-button.js

36 ms

checkLoyaltyCookie.js

checkLoyaltyCookie.js

41 ms

wsgc.js

wsgc.js

85 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

50 ms

we-search.js

we-search.js

53 ms

myStoreHeaderWidget.js

myStoreHeaderWidget.js

68 ms

visualTypeAhead.js

visualTypeAhead.js

62 ms

slideshow-height.js

slideshow-height.js

66 ms

we-homepage.js

we-homepage.js

64 ms

scroller-hub-v2.js

scroller-hub-v2.js

100 ms

TrendingProducts.js

TrendingProducts.js

89 ms

RecommendationService.js

RecommendationService.js

100 ms

custom-elements-es5-adapter.js

custom-elements-es5-adapter.js

77 ms

designChatEnabled.js

designChatEnabled.js

91 ms

IeOverlayExperience.js

IeOverlayExperience.js

100 ms

6dnQB

6dnQB

101 ms

mapcontrol

mapcontrol

31 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

65 ms

default.svg

default.svg

66 ms

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103 ms

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player.js

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1614 ms

player.css

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1516 ms

vuid.min.js

vuid.min.js

1405 ms

6dnQB

6dnQB

242 ms

Accessibility Review

westelm.us accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

westelm.us 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

westelm.us SEO score

78

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

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 Westelm.us 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 Westelm.us 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

westelm.us

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of West Elm. 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: