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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

southern-stitches.com

Southern Stitches - sewing patterns - machine embroidery - smocking -

Page Load Speed

447 ms in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

386 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

About Website

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southern-stitches.com Classic & vintage-inspired heirlooms, patterns & designs for infants & children. Online boutique features vintage garments, classic handmades, embroideries & ePatterns.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southern-stitches.com page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 386 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southern-stitches.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.southern-stitches.com

61 ms

minified.js

49 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

92 ms

polyfill.min.js

120 ms

thunderbolt-commons.2113c4aa.bundle.min.js

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Southern-stitches.com, 69% (9 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Polyfill.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (120 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 319.3 kB (51%)

Content Size

631.6 kB

After Optimization

312.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Southern-stitches.com main page is 631.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 406.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 316.7 kB

  • Original 406.8 kB
  • After minification 405.2 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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 316.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Southern Stitches images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 222.9 kB
  • After minification 222.9 kB
  • After compression 220.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (83%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

2

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Stitches. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southern-stitches.com accessibility score

89

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

southern-stitches.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

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

southern-stitches.com SEO score

99

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

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