Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

21stcenturyyarns.com

Hand- Dyed Yarns Threads Fabrics Designs Silks Cottons Wools

Page Load Speed

15.7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

13.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

21stcenturyyarns.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to 21stcenturyyarns.com homepage info - get ready to check 21stcentury Yarns best content right away, or after learning these important things about 21stcenturyyarns.com

Excusive hand dyed yarns, threads, fabrics and designs in natural fibres, exciting textures and a wonderful array of colour for all creative textile art including embroidery, quilting, felting, canvas...

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Key Findings

We analyzed 21stcenturyyarns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 14.6 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

21stcenturyyarns.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.asp

1167 ms

css

39 ms

fa-safe.css

103 ms

styles.dymc.css

588 ms

styles.dymc.css

316 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original 21stcenturyyarns.com, 67% (62 requests) were made to Files.ekmcdn.com and 14% (13 requests) were made to 46.cdn.ekm.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.4 sec) relates to the external source Files.ekmcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 819.1 kB (12%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

In fact, the total size of 21stcenturyyarns.com main page is 6.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 121.2 kB

  • Original 136.3 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 43.6 kB, which is 32% 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 121.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 637.7 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. 21stcentury Yarns images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 40.5 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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

-55%

Potential reduce by 58.7 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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. 21stcenturyyarns.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.7 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (17%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 21stcentury Yarns. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

21stcenturyyarns.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

21stcenturyyarns.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

21stcenturyyarns.com SEO score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 21stcenturyyarns.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 21stcenturyyarns.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 description is not detected on the main page of 21stcentury Yarns. 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: