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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

hmqs.org

Home Machine Quilting Show HMQS - Salt Lake City, UT

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

hmqs.org screenshot

About Website

Visit hmqs.org now to see the best up-to-date HMQS content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hmqs.org

Home Machine Quilting Show, HMQS, is the premier, annual consumer exhibition and educational conference for all machine quilters, embroiderers and those who love to sew!

Visit hmqs.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Hmqs.org page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hmqs.org performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hmqs.org

102 ms

www.hmqs.org

38 ms

style.css

127 ms

css

84 ms

qsc-logo.png

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Hmqs.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Matomo-aectggyu2a-uc.a.run.app.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 47.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

488.6 kB

After Optimization

440.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hmqs.org main page is 488.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 470.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 2.9 kB, which is 22% 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 9.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 470.9 kB
  • After minification 433.7 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. HMQS images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 604 B

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. Hmqs.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 604 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (17%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HMQS. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

hmqs.org

hmqs.org

102 ms

www.hmqs.org

www.hmqs.org

38 ms

style.css

style.css

127 ms

css

css

84 ms

qsc-logo.png

qsc-logo.png

73 ms

theme-2016-200.png

theme-2016-200.png

99 ms

logo-300-2016-2.png

logo-300-2016-2.png

207 ms

home-page-quilt-220.jpg

home-page-quilt-220.jpg

90 ms

HMQS2015cd-face-150.png

HMQS2015cd-face-150.png

112 ms

tote-bag150.jpg

tote-bag150.jpg

203 ms

pin-150.jpg

pin-150.jpg

203 ms

south-towne-250.jpg

south-towne-250.jpg

204 ms

img1.png

img1.png

205 ms

spacer-425.jpg

spacer-425.jpg

215 ms

gammill-index.jpg

gammill-index.jpg

220 ms

nutalls-index.jpg

nutalls-index.jpg

215 ms

sewhomegrown-index.jpg

sewhomegrown-index.jpg

241 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

2424 ms

bgquilt.png

bgquilt.png

336 ms

bodybg-red.gif

bodybg-red.gif

336 ms

dice3.gif

dice3.gif

320 ms

readmore.gif

readmore.gif

315 ms

button.gif

button.gif

314 ms

dice-quilt2.png

dice-quilt2.png

323 ms

readmore-facebook.png

readmore-facebook.png

324 ms

readmore-twitter.png

readmore-twitter.png

325 ms

readmore-instagram.png

readmore-instagram.png

328 ms

readmore-linkedin.png

readmore-linkedin.png

325 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

319 ms

dice6.gif

dice6.gif

317 ms

font

font

298 ms

font

font

80 ms

Accessibility Review

hmqs.org accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hmqs.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

hmqs.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hmqs.org 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 Hmqs.org 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

hmqs.org

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