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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

makersmarket.com

Maker Shed: Official Store of Make: and Maker Faire since 2005

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

395 ms

makersmarket.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Maker Smarket content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about makersmarket.com

Shop the official store of the Make: Community. Discover our library of Make: magazines and books featuring our Getting Started series, our fun Maker Faire Merch with hats, t-shirts and hoodies and Cu...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Makersmarket.com page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

makersmarket.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.759

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.makershed.com

179 ms

bootstrap.css

75 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

61 ms

style.scss.css

94 ms

header.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Makersmarket.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 981.4 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Makersmarket.com main page is 2.3 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 86.0 kB

  • Original 102.0 kB
  • After minification 88.6 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.4 kB, which is 13% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 86.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Maker Smarket images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 551.6 kB

  • Original 777.3 kB
  • After minification 673.4 kB
  • After compression 225.7 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 551.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 271.3 kB

  • Original 327.2 kB
  • After minification 281.6 kB
  • After compression 56.0 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. Makersmarket.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 271.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (60%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maker Smarket. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.makershed.com

www.makershed.com

179 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

75 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

61 ms

style.scss.css

style.scss.css

94 ms

header.css

header.css

65 ms

footer.css

footer.css

64 ms

index.css

index.css

71 ms

collection.css

collection.css

99 ms

product.css

product.css

97 ms

cart.css

cart.css

101 ms

kits.scss

kits.scss

102 ms

reveal.scss.css

reveal.scss.css

98 ms

holiday.scss.css

holiday.scss.css

92 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

124 ms

ga_urchin_forms-0826cdefee6590321eb5c0c435eeebf7a8425a5493a9e95059c40e07e069ad52.js

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119 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

130 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

127 ms

jquery-mobile.custom.min.js

jquery-mobile.custom.min.js

118 ms

jquery.placeholder.js

jquery.placeholder.js

118 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

118 ms

imagesloaded.js

imagesloaded.js

133 ms

enquire.min.js

enquire.min.js

129 ms

html5shiv.js

html5shiv.js

132 ms

BCCShopify.js

BCCShopify.js

134 ms

2101321427.js

2101321427.js

150 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.js

modernizr-2.7.1.js

132 ms

search-ui.js

search-ui.js

132 ms

lazyload-any.min.js

lazyload-any.min.js

130 ms

swipe.js

swipe.js

127 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

122 ms

jquery.fancybox.scss.css

jquery.fancybox.scss.css

121 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

133 ms

css

css

99 ms

css

css

112 ms

shopify_stats.js

shopify_stats.js

122 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

125 ms

event

event

92 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

211 ms

94 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

90 ms

make_logo.png

make_logo.png

78 ms

maker-shed-logo.png

maker-shed-logo.png

78 ms

sl_1_mobile_img.jpg

sl_1_mobile_img.jpg

126 ms

maker-mobile-logo.png

maker-mobile-logo.png

76 ms

Magazine-cover-44-for-overlay.jpg

Magazine-cover-44-for-overlay.jpg

78 ms

nl_modal_img.jpg

nl_modal_img.jpg

205 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

84 ms

collect

collect

58 ms

collect

collect

320 ms

magazine-icon.png

magazine-icon.png

51 ms

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299 ms

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300 ms

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603 ms

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606 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

32 ms

record.gif

record.gif

165 ms

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222 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

172 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

443 ms

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305 ms

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306 ms

print.css

print.css

70 ms

201 ms

sl_1_img.jpg

sl_1_img.jpg

178 ms

frnt_col_left_img.png

frnt_col_left_img.png

110 ms

frnt_col_right_img.png

frnt_col_right_img.png

103 ms

bottom_col_left_img.jpg

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101 ms

bottom_col_middle_img.jpg

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100 ms

bottom_col_right_img.jpg

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98 ms

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105 ms

combat_quad_edit_large.jpg

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107 ms

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103 ms

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104 ms

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108 ms

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108 ms

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109 ms

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127 ms

bat.js

bat.js

166 ms

2533.js

2533.js

38 ms

Accessibility Review

makersmarket.com accessibility score

74

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

makersmarket.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

makersmarket.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Makersmarket.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 Makersmarket.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

makersmarket.com

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