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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

loveknitting.com.au

LoveCrafts | Knitting, crochet, craft supplies & inspiration

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

598 ms

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

About Website

Visit loveknitting.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Love Knitting content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about loveknitting.com.au

Shop craft supplies, yarn and free patterns at LoveCrafts, the home of Makefulness. Knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, quilting and tons of inspiration.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loveknitting.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

loveknitting.com.au performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,640 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

loveknitting.com.au

194 ms

120 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

156 ms

otSDKStub.js

247 ms

94a023b.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Loveknitting.com.au, 62% (37 requests) were made to Content.prod.lovecrafts.co and 23% (14 requests) were made to Assets.prod.lovecrafts.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (260 ms) relates to the external source Api.feefo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 750.8 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Loveknitting.com.au main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 749.9 kB

  • Original 859.4 kB
  • After minification 842.9 kB
  • After compression 109.5 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 749.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 462 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Love Knitting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 198 B

  • Original 700.5 kB
  • After minification 700.5 kB
  • After compression 700.3 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 243 B

  • Original 90.4 kB
  • After minification 90.4 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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. Loveknitting.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (10%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

52

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Love Knitting. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

loveknitting.com.au accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

loveknitting.com.au 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

loveknitting.com.au SEO score

85

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 Loveknitting.com.au 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 Loveknitting.com.au 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 Love Knitting. 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: