Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

knit-crochet-blog.com

Crochet and knitting tips, tutorials and patterns - Knit & Crochet Blog

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

366 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

knit-crochet-blog.com screenshot

About Website

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Knit and crochet blog with tips, tutorials, patterns and videos. I love bright colours and use those in most of my designs, check out.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Knit-crochet-blog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 366 ms and then it took 3.9 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

knit-crochet-blog.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,050 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.492

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

knit-crochet-blog.com

366 ms

www.knit-crochet-blog.com

1143 ms

mailerlite_forms.css

347 ms

style.css

683 ms

css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Knit-crochet-blog.com, 28% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Knit-crochet-blog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.4 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

976.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Knit-crochet-blog.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 864.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 180.0 kB

  • Original 215.6 kB
  • After minification 213.3 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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. 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 180.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 494.4 kB
  • After minification 478.9 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. Knit Crochet Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 434.7 kB

  • Original 864.1 kB
  • After minification 858.2 kB
  • After compression 429.3 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 434.7 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 221.2 kB

  • Original 253.7 kB
  • After minification 241.3 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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. Knit-crochet-blog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (73%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Knit Crochet Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

knit-crochet-blog.com accessibility score

86

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

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

knit-crochet-blog.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

knit-crochet-blog.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Knit-crochet-blog.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 Knit-crochet-blog.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

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