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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

blindsbydesign.com

Blinds By Design, Holmen, La Crosse, West Salem and Onalaska, WI || Window Treatments, Window Blinds by Alta, Interior Decorating and Color Consultati...

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blindsbydesign.com page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blindsbydesign.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blindsbydesign.com

199 ms

ui.totop.css

45 ms

style.css

85 ms

kwicks.css

78 ms

prettyPhoto.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Blindsbydesign.com, 16% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (313 ms) belongs to the original domain Blindsbydesign.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

620.4 kB

After Optimization

519.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blindsbydesign.com main page is 620.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 509.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.2 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 16.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 65.3 kB

  • Original 509.4 kB
  • After minification 444.1 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, Blinds By Design needs image optimization as it can save up to 65.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 77.3 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 62.8 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 14.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 11.6 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. Blindsbydesign.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (52%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blinds By Design. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blindsbydesign.com

blindsbydesign.com

199 ms

ui.totop.css

ui.totop.css

45 ms

style.css

style.css

85 ms

kwicks.css

kwicks.css

78 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

78 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

122 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

79 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

97 ms

kwicks.js

kwicks.js

119 ms

easyTooltip.js

easyTooltip.js

119 ms

FF-cash.js

FF-cash.js

117 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

119 ms

hover-image.js

hover-image.js

119 ms

jquery.ui.totop.js

jquery.ui.totop.js

152 ms

reset.css

reset.css

70 ms

grid_12.css

grid_12.css

72 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

71 ms

css

css

36 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

214 ms

body_bg.jpg

body_bg.jpg

58 ms

top_block_bg1.jpg

top_block_bg1.jpg

70 ms

Logo2.png

Logo2.png

214 ms

nav_li.jpg

nav_li.jpg

52 ms

nav_marker.png

nav_marker.png

179 ms

sub_ul.jpg

sub_ul.jpg

178 ms

bottom_bg2.jpg

bottom_bg2.jpg

179 ms

top_block_bg2.jpg

top_block_bg2.jpg

180 ms

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180 ms

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kwicks1.jpg

203 ms

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kwicks2.jpg

210 ms

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211 ms

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205 ms

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193 ms

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206 ms

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204 ms

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208 ms

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1page_img2.jpg

251 ms

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kitchen-1.jpg

251 ms

LivRm-1.jpg

LivRm-1.jpg

246 ms

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251 ms

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253 ms

marker1.png

marker1.png

252 ms

more_marker.jpg

more_marker.jpg

260 ms

bottom_block_bg2.jpg

bottom_block_bg2.jpg

261 ms

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261 ms

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mail.jpg

263 ms

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259 ms

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228 ms

back_to.png

back_to.png

41 ms

Accessibility Review

blindsbydesign.com accessibility score

95

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

blindsbydesign.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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blindsbydesign.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blindsbydesign.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 Blindsbydesign.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

blindsbydesign.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blinds By Design. 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: