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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ashtongems.com

Gemstone Cutting, Classes, Lessons, Tennessee - Ashton Gems

Page Load Speed

556 ms in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

400 ms

Page Rendered

108 ms

About Website

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Gemstone Cutting, Classes, Lessons. Call 423-464-4287. We have a variety of Natural and Manmade stones available. Located in Tennessee.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ashtongems.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 508 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ashtongems.com performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.203

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ashtongems.com

48 ms

ashtongems.com

56 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

17 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

30 ms

email-decode.min.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Ashtongems.com, 29% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (190 ms) belongs to the original domain Ashtongems.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

689.7 kB

After Optimization

530.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ashtongems.com main page is 689.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 320.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 157.0 kB

  • Original 187.9 kB
  • After minification 186.8 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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 157.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 320.3 kB
  • After minification 320.3 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. Ashton Gems images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 162.8 kB
  • After minification 162.8 kB
  • After compression 161.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 68 B

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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. Ashtongems.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (42%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ashton Gems. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ashtongems.com accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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

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

ashtongems.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

ashtongems.com SEO score

86

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

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

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 Ashtongems.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 Ashtongems.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 Ashton Gems. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: