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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

laxtons.com

Manufacturers of Worsted & Fancy Yarns | Laxtons

Page Load Speed

17.1 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

16.4 sec

Page Rendered

407 ms

About Website

Visit laxtons.com now to see the best up-to-date Laxtons content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about laxtons.com

Laxtons have been manufacturing dyed & undyed yarns for hand knitting, machine knitting and woven fabrics since 1907. Made in Yorkshire, used & loved around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laxtons.com page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 16.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

laxtons.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

laxtons.com

271 ms

www.laxtons.com

5923 ms

swiper.min.css

294 ms

style.css

436 ms

sbr-styles.css

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Laxtons.com, 10% (8 requests) were made to Framework.fantasticmedia.co.uk and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Laxtons.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 396.5 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

828.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Laxtons.com main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 484.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 215.7 kB

  • Original 263.7 kB
  • After minification 263.6 kB
  • After compression 48.0 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 215.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 126.6 kB

  • Original 484.8 kB
  • After minification 358.1 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. Obviously, Laxtons needs image optimization as it can save up to 126.6 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 281.3 kB
  • After minification 280.2 kB
  • After compression 259.9 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 195.0 kB
  • After minification 195.0 kB
  • After compression 162.2 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. Laxtons.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (83%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laxtons. 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 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

laxtons.com accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

laxtons.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

laxtons.com SEO score

92

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

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