Tools & Wizards About Us
lightcrafters.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

lightcrafters.com

Unique Light Fixtures | Wall Sconces | Home Theater Lighting

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

lightcrafters.com screenshot

About Website

Visit lightcrafters.com now to see the best up-to-date Light Crafters content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about lightcrafters.com

Lightcrafters has been producing quality custom lighting since 1995 in Austin, TX at very reasonable prices. Check out our 5 star ratings and become one of our thousands of very happy clients.

Visit lightcrafters.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Lightcrafters.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lightcrafters.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.177

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lightcrafters.com

1232 ms

stylesheet.css

69 ms

badge_8_7.png

20 ms

badge_22_7.png

24 ms

homepageslideshowwide_hype_generated_script.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Lightcrafters.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to St.houzz.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to St.hzcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Lightcrafters.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.0 kB (13%)

Content Size

921.5 kB

After Optimization

798.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lightcrafters.com main page is 921.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 804.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 48.1 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 38.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 804.6 kB
  • After minification 757.3 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. Light Crafters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 60.1 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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 30.9 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Lightcrafters.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (41%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Light Crafters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lightcrafters.com

lightcrafters.com

1232 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

69 ms

badge_8_7.png

badge_8_7.png

20 ms

badge_22_7.png

badge_22_7.png

24 ms

homepageslideshowwide_hype_generated_script.js

homepageslideshowwide_hype_generated_script.js

113 ms

badge_13_7.png

badge_13_7.png

15 ms

badge_16_7.png

badge_16_7.png

16 ms

badge_19_9.png

badge_19_9.png

17 ms

badge_20_9.png

badge_20_9.png

19 ms

lightcrafterslogo-320.jpg

lightcrafterslogo-320.jpg

221 ms

top_left.jpg

top_left.jpg

103 ms

top_right.jpg

top_right.jpg

107 ms

pixel_trans.gif

pixel_trans.gif

101 ms

pointer_blue_light.gif

pointer_blue_light.gif

127 ms

bottom_left.jpg

bottom_left.jpg

126 ms

bottom_right.jpg

bottom_right.jpg

141 ms

onlineanon.gif

onlineanon.gif

141 ms

onlinemember.gif

onlinemember.gif

141 ms

ccards-long2.gif

ccards-long2.gif

147 ms

micabanded_200.jpg

micabanded_200.jpg

262 ms

blue-seal-250-52-whitetxt-lightcraftersinc-61813.png

blue-seal-250-52-whitetxt-lightcraftersinc-61813.png

144 ms

lightcrafters.com

lightcrafters.com

89 ms

badge-7-Lightcrafters-Inc-61813.png

badge-7-Lightcrafters-Inc-61813.png

145 ms

copper-back-large2.jpg

copper-back-large2.jpg

158 ms

top_background.jpg

top_background.jpg

87 ms

left_background.jpg

left_background.jpg

101 ms

right_background.jpg

right_background.jpg

103 ms

bottom_background.jpg

bottom_background.jpg

108 ms

corner_left.gif

corner_left.gif

121 ms

corner_right_left.gif

corner_right_left.gif

140 ms

mica%20wall%20sconce.jpg

mica%20wall%20sconce.jpg

144 ms

column_post_lantern_sienna.jpg

column_post_lantern_sienna.jpg

192 ms

flaotingshaman127.jpg

flaotingshaman127.jpg

146 ms

aramidmission127.jpg

aramidmission127.jpg

192 ms

addressvertical127.jpg

addressvertical127.jpg

192 ms

121cone.127.jpg

121cone.127.jpg

208 ms

135.127.jpg

135.127.jpg

232 ms

DSC_0752.jpg

DSC_0752.jpg

239 ms

squigmailbox127.jpg

squigmailbox127.jpg

206 ms

104a_2bulbs.jpg

104a_2bulbs.jpg

302 ms

GL_WB.jpg

GL_WB.jpg

302 ms

arrow_right.gif

arrow_right.gif

248 ms

ziggurat_wall_sconce_copper.jpg

ziggurat_wall_sconce_copper.jpg

248 ms

stars_5.gif

stars_5.gif

267 ms

button_tell_a_friend.gif

button_tell_a_friend.gif

285 ms

aarclogo.gif

aarclogo.gif

155 ms

HYPE.js

HYPE.js

251 ms

bat.js

bat.js

48 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

5 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

146 ms

salog.js.aspx

salog.js.aspx

78 ms

copper-back-footer.jpg

copper-back-footer.jpg

237 ms

131270.js

131270.js

68 ms

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

17 ms

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

30 ms

DSC_6774-1.jpg

DSC_6774-1.jpg

87 ms

doublecylpendant_dual-1.jpg

doublecylpendant_dual-1.jpg

86 ms

DSC_0044.jpg

DSC_0044.jpg

204 ms

DSC_4304-1.jpg

DSC_4304-1.jpg

45 ms

Austin-chains.jpg

Austin-chains.jpg

72 ms

jot

jot

87 ms

load_badge.js

load_badge.js

320 ms

Accessibility Review

lightcrafters.com accessibility score

92

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

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

lightcrafters.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

lightcrafters.com SEO score

92

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lightcrafters.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 Lightcrafters.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

lightcrafters.com

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