Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

americanclayworks.com

ACW Supply (aka American Clay Works & Supply Company) – Growing Solutions for a Changing Landscape

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

277 ms

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About Website

Welcome to americanclayworks.com homepage info - get ready to check American Clay Works best content right away, or after learning these important things about americanclayworks.com

American Clay Works & Supply Company, aka ACW Supply, has been servicing growers since 1893.  That is not a typo.  Back in the 1800’s we were a clay pot manufacturer.  Up until plastic molding became ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanclayworks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanclayworks.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanclayworks.com

60 ms

www.americanclayworks.com

2355 ms

select2.min.css

11 ms

iconfonts.css

23 ms

frontend.min.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Americanclayworks.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Americanclayworks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

978.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Americanclayworks.com main page is 1.2 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 545.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 67.0 kB

  • Original 85.8 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 67.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 180.2 kB
  • After minification 176.4 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. American Clay Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 545.7 kB
  • After minification 545.7 kB
  • After compression 511.3 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

-38%

Potential reduce by 165.1 kB

  • Original 436.9 kB
  • After minification 408.2 kB
  • After compression 271.8 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. Americanclayworks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.1 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (81%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Clay Works. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

americanclayworks.com accessibility score

87

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

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

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

americanclayworks.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

americanclayworks.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americanclayworks.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 Americanclayworks.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 American Clay Works. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: