Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

midsouthceramics.com

Pottery Supplies | Clay, Ceramic Supplies, Tools & Equipment

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

975 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midsouthceramics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

midsouthceramics.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

midsouthceramics.com

276 ms

www.midsouthceramics.com

640 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

100 ms

style.min.css

188 ms

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (107 requests) were addressed to the original Midsouthceramics.com, 13% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Midsouthceramics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 228.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Midsouthceramics.com main page is 1.6 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. 85% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 188.0 kB

  • Original 218.2 kB
  • After minification 210.4 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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 188.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Midsouth Ceramic S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 76 B

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (75%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Midsouth Ceramic S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

midsouthceramics.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

midsouthceramics.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

midsouthceramics.com SEO score

92

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 Midsouthceramics.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 Midsouthceramics.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 Midsouth Ceramic S. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: