Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

castlepress.com

Castle Press Printing and Marketing - Los Angeles, CA

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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About Website

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The Castle Press offers printing, graphic design, marketing and mailing services. Offset, digital and custom printing. Online design templates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castlepress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castlepress.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castlepress.com

101 ms

category

39 ms

category

349 ms

layout.css

257 ms

layout.css

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Castlepress.com, 35% (17 requests) were made to Orderingplatform.com and 29% (14 requests) were made to Castlepress.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Castlepress.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 836.0 kB (37%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Castlepress.com main page is 2.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 84.5 kB

  • Original 107.0 kB
  • After minification 105.8 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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 84.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 92.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Castle Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 585.0 kB

  • Original 834.5 kB
  • After minification 783.4 kB
  • After compression 249.5 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 585.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 73.8 kB

  • Original 86.2 kB
  • After minification 85.7 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. Castlepress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (35%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

castlepress.com accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

castlepress.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

castlepress.com SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Castlepress.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Castlepress.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 Castle Press. 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: