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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

americanfarriers.com

American Farriers Journal

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

807 ms

Page Rendered

527 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanfarriers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanfarriers.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.368

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanfarriers.com

48 ms

www.americanfarriers.com

29 ms

application.css

11 ms

css

71 ms

americanfarriers.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Americanfarriers.com, 15% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (372 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 558.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americanfarriers.com main page is 3.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 75.8 kB

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 90.1 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 75.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 163.8 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. American Farriers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 318.0 kB

  • Original 692.9 kB
  • After minification 692.2 kB
  • After compression 374.8 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 318.0 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 948 B

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 56.8 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Americanfarriers.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (28%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Farriers. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

americanfarriers.com

americanfarriers.com

48 ms

www.americanfarriers.com

www.americanfarriers.com

29 ms

application.css

application.css

11 ms

css

css

71 ms

americanfarriers.css

americanfarriers.css

47 ms

jade.default.min.js

jade.default.min.js

47 ms

application.js

application.js

45 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

179 ms

init-2.min.js

init-2.min.js

156 ms

client.js

client.js

44 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

227 ms

logo.png

logo.png

94 ms

HBPA-Lawsuit.jpg

HBPA-Lawsuit.jpg

82 ms

164_SFL_Sean-Travers_JM_0513.jpg

164_SFL_Sean-Travers_JM_0513.jpg

93 ms

Cover_AFJ_0724.jpg

Cover_AFJ_0724.jpg

82 ms

Cover_Your-Guide-For-Building-A-Better-Team-With-Farriers_VOL-4_1222.jpg

Cover_Your-Guide-For-Building-A-Better-Team-With-Farriers_VOL-4_1222.jpg

92 ms

Farrier-Education--Heartland-Horseshoeing-School.png

Farrier-Education--Heartland-Horseshoeing-School.png

225 ms

Forging-Trailers-and-Using-a-Hot-Cut-on-Keg-Shoes.png

Forging-Trailers-and-Using-a-Hot-Cut-on-Keg-Shoes.png

228 ms

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Michigan-State-Farrier-Program.png

227 ms

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219 ms

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224 ms

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223 ms

IHCS_Logo_4c_2025.png

IHCS_Logo_4c_2025.png

271 ms

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LDL.png

271 ms

KAWELL-2023.jpg

KAWELL-2023.jpg

269 ms

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SmartPak_Logo_web.png

269 ms

VettecLogo_web.png

VettecLogo_web.png

269 ms

AFJ-Quizzes-Page-Web-Header.png

AFJ-Quizzes-Page-Web-Header.png

296 ms

AFJ_Horsemanship_Report_0522_pages.png

AFJ_Horsemanship_Report_0522_pages.png

302 ms

HOF_Farrier_Tips_Volume-5_0521.jpg

HOF_Farrier_Tips_Volume-5_0521.jpg

299 ms

AFJ-45th-Anniv-Report-Cover.jpg

AFJ-45th-Anniv-Report-Cover.jpg

298 ms

2019-Farrier-Business-Practices-Report.png

2019-Farrier-Business-Practices-Report.png

300 ms

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221 ms

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289 ms

6474.js

6474.js

217 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

222 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

372 ms

main.bundle.js

main.bundle.js

227 ms

tabs.bundle.js

tabs.bundle.js

226 ms

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99 ms

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103 ms

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249 ms

logger.bundle.js

logger.bundle.js

61 ms

Best Practices

americanfarriers.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

americanfarriers.com SEO score

84

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 Americanfarriers.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 Americanfarriers.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

americanfarriers.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of American Farriers. 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: