Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

chimneycricket.com

American Express

Page Load Speed

14.5 sec in total

First Response

566 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

8.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chimneycricket.com page load time and found that the first response time was 566 ms and then it took 14 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chimneycricket.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chimneycricket.com

566 ms

js

102 ms

bcpo-front.css

128 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

131 ms

slick.js

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (86 requests) were addressed to the original Chimneycricket.com, 13% (14 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Chimneycricket.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (11%)

Content Size

25.7 MB

After Optimization

23.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Chimneycricket.com main page is 25.7 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 24.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 920.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 891.4 kB
  • After compression 108.8 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 138.1 kB, which is 13% 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 920.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 24.4 MB
  • After minification 22.6 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. Chimneycricket images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 652 B

  • Original 259.6 kB
  • After minification 259.6 kB
  • After compression 258.9 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 64.9 kB
  • After compression 62.7 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. Chimneycricket.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (67%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chimneycricket. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

chimneycricket.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

chimneycricket.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

chimneycricket.com SEO score

84

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chimneycricket.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 Chimneycricket.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 Chimneycricket. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: