Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% 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

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

crafthouston.org

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft – Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a nonprofit arts organization founded to advance education abo...

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

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Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a nonprofit arts organization founded to advance education about the process, product and history of craft. HCCC’s major emphasis is on objects of art m...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crafthouston.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crafthouston.org performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.crafthouston.org

1287 ms

style.css

72 ms

sne3njg.js

172 ms

jquery-ui.theme.min.css

134 ms

minimalist.css

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Crafthouston.org, 8% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Crafthouston.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 401.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

984.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Crafthouston.org main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 873.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 45.4 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 37.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 873.5 kB
  • After minification 845.1 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. Craft Houston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 235.0 kB

  • Original 346.4 kB
  • After minification 337.1 kB
  • After compression 111.4 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 235.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 120.8 kB
  • After minification 107.9 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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. Crafthouston.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 100.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (72%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craft Houston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

crafthouston.org 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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

Best Practices

crafthouston.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

crafthouston.org SEO score

69

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

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 Crafthouston.org 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 Crafthouston.org 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 Craft Houston. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: