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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

graphixworks.com

The Graphix Works | Niagara Graphic & Website Design | St. Catharines

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

946 ms

About Website

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Since 1986, The Graphix Works has been your one stop shop for all of your marketing needs. From Graphic Design to Web Development and Promotional Products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Graphixworks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

graphixworks.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.493

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

graphixworks.com

1741 ms

js

58 ms

foundation-6.4.2.css

73 ms

magnific.css

71 ms

style.min.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (122 requests) were addressed to the original Graphixworks.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Graphixworks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 663.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Graphixworks.com main page is 4.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 229.2 kB

  • Original 267.7 kB
  • After minification 256.0 kB
  • After compression 38.5 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 229.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 61.3 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Graphix Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 208.8 kB

  • Original 717.1 kB
  • After minification 717.1 kB
  • After compression 508.4 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 208.8 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 163.9 kB

  • Original 227.8 kB
  • After minification 208.2 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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. Graphixworks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (29%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

92

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Graphix 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 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

graphixworks.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

graphixworks.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

graphixworks.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 Graphixworks.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 Graphixworks.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 Graphix Works. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: