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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

gatecityyarns.com

Gate City Yarns | Fiber Crafting Supplies | Greensboro, NC

Page Load Speed

992 ms in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

736 ms

Page Rendered

150 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatecityyarns.com page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 886 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gatecityyarns.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gatecityyarns.com

106 ms

all.min.css

25 ms

v4-shims.min.css

8 ms

main.css.php

63 ms

jquery-ui.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Gatecityyarns.com, 22% (8 requests) were made to Media.rainpos.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Siteimages.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (504 ms) relates to the external source Cdnjs.cloudflare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 227.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gatecityyarns.com main page is 1.5 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 728.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 83.8 kB
  • After minification 82.2 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 59.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 728.2 kB
  • After minification 688.1 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. Gate City Yarns images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 127.7 kB

  • Original 539.5 kB
  • After minification 516.1 kB
  • After compression 411.8 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 127.7 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 45 B

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 106.7 kB
  • After compression 106.7 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. Gatecityyarns.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (57%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gate City Yarns. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gatecityyarns.com

www.gatecityyarns.com

106 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

25 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

8 ms

main.css.php

main.css.php

63 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

71 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

152 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

82 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

89 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

92 ms

json2.js

json2.js

101 ms

menu.css.php

menu.css.php

60 ms

mbMenu.js

mbMenu.js

101 ms

recaptchaCode.js

recaptchaCode.js

21 ms

api.js

api.js

86 ms

products-28.js

products-28.js

52 ms

axios.0.18.0.min.js

axios.0.18.0.min.js

51 ms

big.min.js

big.min.js

56 ms

lib.js

lib.js

56 ms

cart.js

cart.js

58 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

504 ms

WaitList.js

WaitList.js

58 ms

page_background_image.jpg

page_background_image.jpg

143 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

15 ms

page_background_div_image.jpg

page_background_div_image.jpg

108 ms

main_1_column_background_image.png

main_1_column_background_image.png

107 ms

footer_image.jpg

footer_image.jpg

106 ms

mail.png

mail.png

4 ms

fb.png

fb.png

6 ms

search_bg.png

search_bg.png

5 ms

search.jpg

search.jpg

6 ms

linebreak.png

linebreak.png

5 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

44 ms

cart-bg-1a.png

cart-bg-1a.png

24 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

10 ms

671x375_dsc_0014jpg.jpg

671x375_dsc_0014jpg.jpg

23 ms

500x375_spinoffad_009jpg.jpg

500x375_spinoffad_009jpg.jpg

21 ms

Accessibility Review

gatecityyarns.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gatecityyarns.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gatecityyarns.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gatecityyarns.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Gatecityyarns.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

gatecityyarns.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gate City Yarns. 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: