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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

haystackcreative.com

Haystack Creative::seattle creative staffing firm::seattle design jobs recruiter::seattle UX jobs recruiter

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

89 ms

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About Website

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+Haystack Creative is a creative resource that combines Recruiting and staffing strategy with Business strategy for creative teams: graphic design firms, advertising agencies, marketing, interactive, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Haystackcreative.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

haystackcreative.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

haystackcreative.com

180 ms

haystackcreative.com

1606 ms

stylesheet.css

68 ms

haystack.js

133 ms

urchin.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Haystackcreative.com, 6% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Haystackcreative.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.7 kB (20%)

Content Size

37.8 kB

After Optimization

30.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Haystackcreative.com main page is 37.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 21.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 5.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 752 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 20.3 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. Haystack Creative images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 1.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 123 B

  • Original 620 B
  • After minification 620 B
  • After compression 497 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. Haystackcreative.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 123 B or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Haystack Creative. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

haystackcreative.com

haystackcreative.com

180 ms

haystackcreative.com

haystackcreative.com

1606 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

68 ms

haystack.js

haystack.js

133 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

blankspc.gif

blankspc.gif

184 ms

haystack_creative_business_development_staffing_recruiting.gif

haystack_creative_business_development_staffing_recruiting.gif

182 ms

toplinksep.gif

toplinksep.gif

190 ms

pattern1.gif

pattern1.gif

239 ms

pattern2.gif

pattern2.gif

185 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

arrow_down.gif

arrow_down.gif

65 ms

topback.gif

topback.gif

110 ms

patternback1.gif

patternback1.gif

108 ms

home_image1.jpg

home_image1.jpg

169 ms

footerpiece.gif

footerpiece.gif

174 ms

patternback2.gif

patternback2.gif

140 ms

Accessibility Review

haystackcreative.com accessibility score

68

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.

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

Best Practices

haystackcreative.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

haystackcreative.com SEO score

67

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Haystackcreative.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 Haystackcreative.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

haystackcreative.com

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