Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

crystals.us

Water Crystals, Gardening, Crafts, Water Gel, Expanding Water Crystals for Cool ties and smelly jelly, Ice gel

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

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About Website

Welcome to crystals.us homepage info - get ready to check Crystals best content right away, or after learning these important things about crystals.us

Water Gel for crafts, gardens, cool ties, decor and smelly Jelly. Expanding Water Crystals (or water gel) look like real broken ice! Discount prices, order water crystals direct from the manufacturer!...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crystals.us page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crystals.us performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crystals.us

184 ms

www.crystals.us

186 ms

styles.css

61 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

121 ms

crystals_bg.jpg

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Crystals.us and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (421 ms) belongs to the original domain Crystals.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

165.0 kB

After Optimization

134.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Crystals.us main page is 165.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 127.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 5.8 kB, which is 17% 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 27.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 127.6 kB
  • After minification 125.7 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. Crystals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 1.0 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 36 B

  • Original 347 B
  • After minification 347 B
  • After compression 311 B

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. Crystals.us has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (26%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crystals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

crystals.us accessibility score

56

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

crystals.us best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

crystals.us SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • 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 Crystals.us can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Crystals.us 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Crystals. 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: