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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

braidfactorymn.com

The Braid Factory | Best Hair Saloon in Minneapolis MN

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Braidfactorymn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

braidfactorymn.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.261

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

braidfactorymn.com

101 ms

www.braidfactorymn.com

612 ms

style.css

27 ms

responsivemobilemenu.css

41 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Braidfactorymn.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (612 ms) belongs to the original domain Braidfactorymn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

582.5 kB

After Optimization

540.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Braidfactorymn.com main page is 582.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 508.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 6.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 871 B

  • Original 508.6 kB
  • After minification 507.8 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. Braid Factory MN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 57.1 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 32.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Braidfactorymn.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (35%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Braid Factory MN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

braidfactorymn.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

braidfactorymn.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

braidfactorymn.com SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Braidfactorymn.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Braidfactorymn.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 Braid Factory MN. 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: