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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

pencils.com

Pencils.com - High-quality pencils and unique gifts for unique people

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

698 ms

pencils.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to pencils.com homepage info - get ready to check Pencils best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about pencils.com

High-quality pencils make a difference. In the classroom, the art studio or your everyday life, we can help you find the right pencil, or a unique gift.

Visit pencils.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Pencils.com page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pencils.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pencils.com

141 ms

js

75 ms

js

124 ms

widget.js

73 ms

theme.scss.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (96 requests) were addressed to the original Pencils.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Staticw2.yotpo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Chimpstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 549.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

999.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pencils.com main page is 1.5 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. HTML takes 607.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 535.2 kB

  • Original 607.1 kB
  • After minification 559.1 kB
  • After compression 71.8 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 535.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 361.4 kB
  • After minification 356.4 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. Pencils images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 540.9 kB
  • After minification 540.9 kB
  • After compression 532.2 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.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 298 B

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 39.5 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. Pencils.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (89%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pencils. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

pencils.com accessibility score

90

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

pencils.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pencils.com SEO score

97

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 Pencils.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 Pencils.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

pencils.com

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