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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

thecrofthouse.com

Fair Isle Knitwear: Scottish Shetland Character Woollens - The Croft House

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

737 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

548 ms

About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecrofthouse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 737 ms and then it took 3.2 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

thecrofthouse.com performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,110 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.531

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thecrofthouse.com

737 ms

9d35fab772e638e86de75e23846bc37a.min.css

28 ms

styles-l.min.css

97 ms

10e19943190fd720e9783fa48ea75c84.min.css

96 ms

require.js

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 210 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (196 requests) were addressed to the original Thecrofthouse.com, 2% (5 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (836 ms) belongs to the original domain Thecrofthouse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 605.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecrofthouse.com main page is 3.4 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 115.7 kB

  • Original 138.6 kB
  • After minification 136.1 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 115.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. The Croft House images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 472.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 581.0 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 472.6 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 347.8 kB
  • After minification 347.8 kB
  • After compression 343.1 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. Thecrofthouse.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 178 (90%)

Requests Now

198

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 198 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Croft House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 176 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thecrofthouse.com accessibility score

79

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thecrofthouse.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

thecrofthouse.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Thecrofthouse.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 Thecrofthouse.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 description is not detected on the main page of The Croft House. 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: