Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

shop.columns.com

Architectural Columns, Pergolas, Shutters, Balustrades, Compo Accents | Chadsworth Columns

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

697 ms

Page Rendered

364 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shop.columns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shop.columns.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shop.columns.com

101 ms

shop.columns.com

168 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

101 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.0.min.js

189 ms

json2.js

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Shop.columns.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Assets.pinterest.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (192 ms) belongs to the original domain Shop.columns.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 193.4 kB (42%)

Content Size

464.3 kB

After Optimization

270.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Shop.columns.com main page is 464.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 179.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 139.8 kB

  • Original 167.6 kB
  • After minification 166.6 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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 139.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 343 B

  • Original 103.2 kB
  • After minification 102.9 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. Shop Columns images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 179.2 kB
  • After minification 175.5 kB
  • After compression 130.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 49.2 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. Shop.columns.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (43%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shop Columns. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shop.columns.com accessibility score

66

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

shop.columns.com best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

shop.columns.com SEO score

88

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 Shop.columns.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 Shop.columns.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 Shop Columns. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: