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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk

Cross Stitch Workshop - all the cross stitch supplies you need for your next project

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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About Website

Welcome to crossstitchworkshop.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Cross Stitch Workshop best content right away, or after learning these important things about crossstitchworkshop.co.uk

Cross Stitch supplies including fabrics, aida, evenweave, threads by DMC and Anchor, cross stitch kits, cross stitch accessories hoops, needles, frames, magnifiers

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crossstitchworkshop.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 3.7 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

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.189

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk

2111 ms

lightbox.css

116 ms

prototype.js

418 ms

scriptaculous.js

265 ms

lightbox.js

302 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Crossstitchworkshop.co.uk, 6% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Crossstitchworkshop.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

932.1 kB

After Optimization

832.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Crossstitchworkshop.co.uk main page is 932.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 839.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 25.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 839.5 kB
  • After minification 782.6 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. Cross Stitch Workshop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.1 kB
  • After compression 39.5 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 16.2 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Crossstitchworkshop.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (24%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cross Stitch Workshop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk

2111 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

116 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

418 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

265 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

302 ms

styles.css

styles.css

286 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

295 ms

styles2.css

styles2.css

276 ms

effects.js

effects.js

166 ms

logo2a.jpg

logo2a.jpg

237 ms

iXhsIPOg.jpeg

iXhsIPOg.jpeg

387 ms

ncx-horizontal-m-v-secure.png

ncx-horizontal-m-v-secure.png

244 ms

pp-logo-100px.png

pp-logo-100px.png

163 ms

free%20shipping.jpg

free%20shipping.jpg

177 ms

DMC-RGB.jpg

DMC-RGB.jpg

570 ms

2993.jpg

2993.jpg

570 ms

product.dn90942S.jpg

product.dn90942S.jpg

310 ms

all.jpeg

all.jpeg

535 ms

AidaTraditional2.jpg

AidaTraditional2.jpg

382 ms

new%20shade%20card.png

new%20shade%20card.png

430 ms

anchor.jpg

anchor.jpg

494 ms

scarletdaisy_small.gif

scarletdaisy_small.gif

489 ms

grade_left.jpg

grade_left.jpg

532 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

55 ms

nothing%20outside%20UK.png

nothing%20outside%20UK.png

569 ms

grad_top.jpg

grad_top.jpg

573 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

49 ms

grade_right.jpg

grade_right.jpg

586 ms

collect

collect

69 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

16 ms

61 ms

js

js

74 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

105 ms

closelabel.gif

closelabel.gif

106 ms

Accessibility Review

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk accessibility score

42

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk best practices score

58

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

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Crossstitchworkshop.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 Crossstitchworkshop.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

crossstitchworkshop.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Cross Stitch Workshop. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: