Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

iloveyarn.co.za

I Love Yarn | Shop Wool Online | Delivered to your home

Page Load Speed

13.8 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

iloveyarn.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing I Love Yarn content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about iloveyarn.co.za

At I Love Yarn you can let creativity shine in your craft with the use of our best-selling local and international wool/ yarns available in different colours.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iloveyarn.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iloveyarn.co.za performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.iloveyarn.co.za

1865 ms

css

42 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

253 ms

woocommerce.css

505 ms

slick.min.css

733 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Iloveyarn.co.za, 28% (34 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Iloveyarn.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Iloveyarn.co.za main page is 3.9 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 162.3 kB

  • Original 193.5 kB
  • After minification 188.0 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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 162.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. I Love Yarn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 28 B

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 52 (63%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of I Love Yarn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

iloveyarn.co.za accessibility score

79

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

iloveyarn.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

iloveyarn.co.za SEO score

90

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Iloveyarn.co.za 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 Iloveyarn.co.za 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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of I Love Yarn. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: