Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

coldwatercreek.com

Coldwater Creek | Women's Clothing, Accessories & Home Décor

Page Load Speed

39.2 sec in total

First Response

692 ms

Resources Loaded

20.1 sec

Page Rendered

18.4 sec

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About Website

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Shop at Coldwater Creek for comfortable, uncomplicated women's apparel that is inspired by nature. Discover denim, vests, sweaters & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Coldwatercreek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 692 ms and then it took 38.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

coldwatercreek.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.62

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.coldwatercreek.com

692 ms

entry.js

652 ms

normalize.css

70 ms

main.css

67 ms

font-awesome.css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Coldwatercreek.com, 72% (66 requests) were made to Demandware.edgesuite.net and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) relates to the external source Cdnjs.cloudflare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (35%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Coldwatercreek.com main page is 9.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 89.9 kB

  • Original 106.8 kB
  • After minification 93.9 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 12.9 kB, which is 12% 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 89.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 302.9 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Coldwater Creek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 732.3 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 2.1 MB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 740.1 kB

  • Original 902.8 kB
  • After minification 732.1 kB
  • After compression 162.7 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. Coldwatercreek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 740.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (69%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Coldwater Creek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

coldwatercreek.com accessibility score

91

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.

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

coldwatercreek.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

coldwatercreek.com SEO score

98

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 Coldwatercreek.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 Coldwatercreek.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 Coldwater Creek. 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: