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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

knittingguides.com

KnittingGuides.com – Your online guide to creative knitting.

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Knittingguides.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

knittingguides.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

knittingguides.com

2205 ms

style.min.css

123 ms

ansar-import-public.css

53 ms

css

17 ms

css

126 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Knittingguides.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Knittingguides.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (74%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

615.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Knittingguides.com main page is 2.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 54.6 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 45.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 109.5 kB
  • After minification 98.2 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. Knitting Guides images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 627.5 kB

  • Original 990.0 kB
  • After minification 966.4 kB
  • After compression 362.5 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 627.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 140.1 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. Knittingguides.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (77%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Knitting Guides. 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 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

knittingguides.com

knittingguides.com

2205 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

123 ms

ansar-import-public.css

ansar-import-public.css

53 ms

css

css

17 ms

css

css

126 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

159 ms

style.css

style.css

50 ms

all.css

all.css

145 ms

dark.css

dark.css

74 ms

swiper-bundle.css

swiper-bundle.css

74 ms

jquery.smartmenus.bootstrap.css

jquery.smartmenus.bootstrap.css

98 ms

animate.css

animate.css

124 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

247 ms

style.css

style.css

155 ms

style.css

style.css

150 ms

default.css

default.css

169 ms

dark.css

dark.css

172 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

364 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

329 ms

ansar-import-public.js

ansar-import-public.js

326 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

329 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

386 ms

swiper-bundle.js

swiper-bundle.js

330 ms

main.js

main.js

352 ms

sticksy.min.js

sticksy.min.js

352 ms

jquery.smartmenus.js

jquery.smartmenus.js

351 ms

jquery.smartmenus.bootstrap.js

jquery.smartmenus.bootstrap.js

354 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

115 ms

prettyPhoto.min.css

prettyPhoto.min.css

232 ms

owl.min.css

owl.min.css

232 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

234 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

233 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.min.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.min.js

312 ms

masonry.pkgd.min.js

masonry.pkgd.min.js

312 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

314 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

314 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

313 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

405 ms

vc_grid.min.js

vc_grid.min.js

406 ms

custom.js

custom.js

405 ms

KGwebLogoAlter.png

KGwebLogoAlter.png

150 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

21 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

183 ms

font

font

125 ms

font

font

130 ms

washcoth1.jpg

washcoth1.jpg

34 ms

knittingguides.com

knittingguides.com

2069 ms

ads

ads

44 ms

ads

ads

67 ms

ads

ads

77 ms

container.html

container.html

49 ms

admin-ajax.php

admin-ajax.php

1760 ms

Accessibility Review

knittingguides.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

knittingguides.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

knittingguides.com SEO score

93

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

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 Knittingguides.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 Knittingguides.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

knittingguides.com

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