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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

highlandforge.com

Highland Forge | Custom Drapery Hardware including curtain rods and brackets, finials and wands, rings and tiebacks

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Custom drapery hardware products hand wrought from steel, stainless steel, or brass and available in any finish. Curtain rods and brackets. Finials and rings. Drapery tiebacks and wands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highlandforge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

highlandforge.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.304

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

highlandforge.com

100 ms

highlandforge.com

488 ms

theme-0cfef540-4919-013d-fe5c-42e4bbeb60c4.css

99 ms

css

98 ms

modernizr-custom.js

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Highlandforge.com, 69% (38 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (488 ms) belongs to the original domain Highlandforge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.5 kB (2%)

Content Size

11.7 MB

After Optimization

11.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Highlandforge.com main page is 11.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 203.2 kB

  • Original 230.7 kB
  • After minification 106.8 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 123.8 kB, which is 54% 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 203.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 11.3 MB
  • After minification 11.3 MB

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. Highland Forge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 144.5 kB
  • After minification 144.5 kB
  • After compression 143.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (32%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Highland Forge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

highlandforge.com

highlandforge.com

100 ms

highlandforge.com

highlandforge.com

488 ms

theme-0cfef540-4919-013d-fe5c-42e4bbeb60c4.css

theme-0cfef540-4919-013d-fe5c-42e4bbeb60c4.css

99 ms

css

css

98 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

119 ms

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google_analytics4-9a468da7c21d2e9e41cd445d567f3f3a5a9b6759.js

119 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

81 ms

powr.js

powr.js

202 ms

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adc09f34-c563-45be-ae88-0b06c8f09ca0.js

229 ms

lo.js

lo.js

80 ms

index.js

index.js

137 ms

theme-bundle.main.js

theme-bundle.main.js

134 ms

csrf-protection-header-5eeddd5de78d98d146ef4fd71b2aedce4161903e.js

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113 ms

visitor_stencil.js

visitor_stencil.js

201 ms

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196 ms

loader.js

loader.js

366 ms

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klaviyo.js

229 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

176 ms

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96 ms

HF-custom.png

HF-custom.png

33 ms

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HF-collections.png

35 ms

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25 ms

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25 ms

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custom-hero.jpeg

34 ms

custom-hero-1.png

custom-hero-1.png

42 ms

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custom-hero-2.png

53 ms

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custom-hero-3.png

101 ms

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99 ms

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47 ms

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52 ms

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100 ms

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102 ms

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HighlandForge_Logo_Black_Symbol.png

102 ms

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124 ms

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strength-of-purpose.png

123 ms

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strength-of-vision-bw.png

121 ms

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120 ms

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120 ms

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119 ms

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125 ms

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home-gallery-1.jpeg

131 ms

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home-gallery-2.jpeg

129 ms

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home-gallery-3.jpeg

132 ms

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home-gallery-4.jpeg

133 ms

HighlandForge_Logo_Gray_Symbol.png

HighlandForge_Logo_Gray_Symbol.png

129 ms

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TTNormsProBold.woff

138 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

16 ms

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nobot

76 ms

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TTNormsProNormal.woff

45 ms

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73 ms

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TTNormsProMedium.woff

66 ms

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TTNormsProDemiBold.woff

66 ms

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index.php

119 ms

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333 ms

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c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

highlandforge.com accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

highlandforge.com best practices score

75

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

highlandforge.com SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Highlandforge.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 Highlandforge.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

highlandforge.com

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