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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

wwwtheknot.com

The Knot® Wedding Planning Website: Tools, Inspiration & More

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

792 ms

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wwwtheknot.com page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wwwtheknot.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.173

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wwwtheknot.com

127 ms

www.theknot.com

123 ms

flipper.js

48 ms

browser-modules.js

31 ms

2cfc7301

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wwwtheknot.com, 50% (13 requests) were made to Theknot.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Static.xoedge.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (369 ms) relates to the external source S.go-mpulse.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 423.8 kB (44%)

Content Size

965.7 kB

After Optimization

541.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wwwtheknot.com main page is 965.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 463.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 386.7 kB

  • Original 463.8 kB
  • After minification 463.4 kB
  • After compression 77.1 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 386.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 299.7 kB
  • After minification 280.5 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. Wwwthe Knot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 191.5 kB
  • After compression 173.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Wwwtheknot.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (33%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wwwthe Knot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wwwtheknot.com

wwwtheknot.com

127 ms

www.theknot.com

www.theknot.com

123 ms

flipper.js

flipper.js

48 ms

browser-modules.js

browser-modules.js

31 ms

2cfc7301

2cfc7301

33 ms

index.js

index.js

339 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

324 ms

consented-segment.js

consented-segment.js

301 ms

W4DWN-F385G-M4K84-AVS45-EWMBB

W4DWN-F385G-M4K84-AVS45-EWMBB

369 ms

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354 ms

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124 ms

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171 ms

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171 ms

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172 ms

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169 ms

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167 ms

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168 ms

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208 ms

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4314ba2a-420b-4400-8469-1cc3cfee4d83~rs_404.h

204 ms

secondary.css

secondary.css

31 ms

index.3e6db204.css

index.3e6db204.css

34 ms

98c04d9e-538c-47ab-9820-bad810dce441.json

98c04d9e-538c-47ab-9820-bad810dce441.json

85 ms

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118 ms

location

location

43 ms

config.json

config.json

79 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

15 ms

Accessibility Review

wwwtheknot.com accessibility score

96

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 progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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

wwwtheknot.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

wwwtheknot.com SEO score

99

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 Wwwtheknot.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 Wwwtheknot.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

wwwtheknot.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Wwwthe Knot. 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: