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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

crystalsugar.com

American Crystal Sugar Company | American Crystal Sugar Company

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Crystal Sugar content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about crystalsugar.com

American Crystal Sugar Company is a world-class agricultural cooperative. Learn more about the company and company history, products and services, sugar processing, available careers, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crystalsugar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crystalsugar.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,280 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crystalsugar.com

173 ms

www.crystalsugar.com

773 ms

bootstrap.min.css

270 ms

style.css

369 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.css

226 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Crystalsugar.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Crystalsugar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 425.0 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

876.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Crystalsugar.com main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 728.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 52.0 kB
  • After minification 32.5 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 19.6 kB, which is 38% 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 45.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 728.2 kB
  • After minification 723.1 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. Crystal Sugar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 242.3 kB

  • Original 358.8 kB
  • After minification 352.0 kB
  • After compression 116.4 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 242.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 132.1 kB

  • Original 162.6 kB
  • After minification 157.6 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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. Crystalsugar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 132.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (68%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crystal Sugar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

crystalsugar.com

crystalsugar.com

173 ms

www.crystalsugar.com

www.crystalsugar.com

773 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

270 ms

style.css

style.css

369 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.css

jquery.jcarousel.min.css

226 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

232 ms

datepicker.min.css

datepicker.min.css

231 ms

slidebars.min.css

slidebars.min.css

234 ms

slidebars-theme.min.css

slidebars-theme.min.css

303 ms

css

css

68 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

35 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

535 ms

html5shiv.js

html5shiv.js

304 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

461 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

345 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

449 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

459 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.min.js

bootstrap-datepicker.min.js

423 ms

script.js

script.js

440 ms

slidebars.min.js

slidebars.min.js

498 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

515 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

525 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

574 ms

ga.js

ga.js

1315 ms

acsc_logo.png

acsc_logo.png

1314 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1319 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1317 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1319 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1316 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1315 ms

more.png

more.png

1313 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1315 ms

line26.gif

line26.gif

1317 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1318 ms

ImageGen.ashx

ImageGen.ashx

1318 ms

search.gif

search.gif

1299 ms

right_border.jpg

right_border.jpg

1290 ms

greyline.jpg

greyline.jpg

1291 ms

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24 ms

Accessibility Review

crystalsugar.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

crystalsugar.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

crystalsugar.com SEO score

85

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

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

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

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 Crystalsugar.com 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 Crystalsugar.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

crystalsugar.com

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