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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk

Craft Supplies Direct - Beacon Adhesives | Glitter | Craft Glues<meta name="google-site-verificati

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

243 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

766 ms

craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Craft Supplies Direct content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk

Craft Supplies Direct is a UK company selling a variety of quality Beacon craft glues and other crafting accessories and offering quick and easy shipping. <Meta name="Description" content=" CraftSuppl...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 243 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Default.asp

243 ms

milonic_src.js

68 ms

Menu_Popout_Styles.js

92 ms

Menu_Popout_Data.js

76 ms

jquery-ui.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk, 10% (4 requests) were made to Cdn3.volusion.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (246 ms) belongs to the original domain Craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 20.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 88.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Craft Supplies Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 108.9 kB
  • After minification 108.9 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 19.6 kB
  • After minification 19.6 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (51%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craft Supplies Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Default.asp

Default.asp

243 ms

milonic_src.js

milonic_src.js

68 ms

Menu_Popout_Styles.js

Menu_Popout_Styles.js

92 ms

Menu_Popout_Data.js

Menu_Popout_Data.js

76 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

13 ms

default.css

default.css

92 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

18 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

24 ms

volusion.js

volusion.js

90 ms

content.css

content.css

90 ms

paypal-rest-default-buttons.js

paypal-rest-default-buttons.js

110 ms

soft_add.js

soft_add.js

113 ms

soft_add_mult.js

soft_add_mult.js

126 ms

soft_add.css

soft_add.css

126 ms

javascripts.js

javascripts.js

135 ms

f2c8c7e93216e073_complete.js

f2c8c7e93216e073_complete.js

97 ms

Imports.css

Imports.css

121 ms

mmenudom.js

mmenudom.js

89 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

58 ms

ionicons.min.css

ionicons.min.css

58 ms

Colors.css

Colors.css

45 ms

Content_Area.css

Content_Area.css

49 ms

Template.css

Template.css

85 ms

Navigation.css

Navigation.css

36 ms

FOAMTACMINI-1.jpg

FOAMTACMINI-1.jpg

186 ms

FGCLOTH-1.jpg

FGCLOTH-1.jpg

165 ms

1OZORMDFT-1.jpg

1OZORMDFT-1.jpg

222 ms

2OZORMD-1.jpg

2OZORMD-1.jpg

157 ms

body_bg.jpg

body_bg.jpg

180 ms

top_line.gif

top_line.gif

158 ms

header_bg.jpg

header_bg.jpg

182 ms

cart.png

cart.png

178 ms

search_bg.png

search_bg.png

155 ms

top_nav_bg.png

top_nav_bg.png

163 ms

CraftSuppliesDirectbanner%20Master.jpg

CraftSuppliesDirectbanner%20Master.jpg

246 ms

clear1x1.gif

clear1x1.gif

157 ms

vsecure.gif

vsecure.gif

198 ms

verified_merchant.gif

verified_merchant.gif

155 ms

Menu1_Bullet.gif

Menu1_Bullet.gif

40 ms

Grid_Divider_Vertical.gif

Grid_Divider_Vertical.gif

166 ms

Grid_Divider_Horizontal.gif

Grid_Divider_Horizontal.gif

136 ms

news_bg.gif

news_bg.gif

77 ms

Accessibility Review

craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk accessibility score

78

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.

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

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

craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk 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 Craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk 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

craftsuppliesdirect.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Craft Supplies Direct. 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: