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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

community.knitpicks.com

KnitPicks.com - Knitting Supplies, Knitting Yarn, Books, Patterns, Needles & Accessories

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Community.knitpicks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

community.knitpicks.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

community.knitpicks.com

130 ms

www.knitpicks.com

328 ms

gtm.js

107 ms

analytics.js

62 ms

kp.600714b3.css

275 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Community.knitpicks.com, 48% (31 requests) were made to D2q9kw5vp0we94.cloudfront.net and 12% (8 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (609 ms) relates to the external source Knitpicks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Community.knitpicks.com 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 89.4 kB

  • Original 126.9 kB
  • After minification 116.5 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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 89.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 184.4 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Com Munity Knit Picks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 63.8 kB

  • Original 638.0 kB
  • After minification 638.0 kB
  • After compression 574.2 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.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 729 B

  • Original 46.4 kB
  • After minification 46.4 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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. Community.knitpicks.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (45%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Com Munity Knit Picks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

community.knitpicks.com

community.knitpicks.com

130 ms

www.knitpicks.com

www.knitpicks.com

328 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

107 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

62 ms

kp.600714b3.css

kp.600714b3.css

275 ms

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58 ms

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62 ms

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runtime.ceac4dd6.js

296 ms

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609 ms

klaviyo.js

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70 ms

controller.js

controller.js

68 ms

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tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

63 ms

api.js

api.js

72 ms

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52 ms

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52 ms

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60 ms

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59 ms

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64 ms

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63 ms

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63 ms

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64 ms

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66 ms

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66 ms

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74 ms

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72 ms

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73 ms

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66 ms

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68 ms

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70 ms

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70 ms

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73 ms

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76 ms

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118 ms

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250 ms

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71 ms

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219 ms

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77 ms

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222 ms

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174 ms

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Accessibility Review

community.knitpicks.com accessibility score

83

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

community.knitpicks.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

community.knitpicks.com SEO score

85

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 Community.knitpicks.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 Community.knitpicks.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

community.knitpicks.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Com Munity Knit Picks. 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: