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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

quiltdirect.com

Quilt Direct | Quilting Supplies and Sewing Thread Online

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

520 ms

quiltdirect.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Quilt Direct content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about quiltdirect.com

Quilt Direct for all your quilting tools and supplies including Bernina & Bernette Sewing Machines, Overlocker and Longarm Machines, Accuquilt and Crafters Edge cutting systems, Horn furniture, Artbin...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Quiltdirect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 4.2 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

quiltdirect.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

quiltdirect.com

182 ms

quiltdirect.co.uk

362 ms

jquery.min.js

80 ms

font-awesome.min.css

107 ms

slick.min.css

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Quiltdirect.com, 46% (38 requests) were made to Quiltdirect.co.uk and 11% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (24%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Quiltdirect.com main page is 4.9 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 751.3 kB

  • Original 896.2 kB
  • After minification 860.1 kB
  • After compression 144.9 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 751.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 151.4 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Quilt Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 269.7 kB

  • Original 810.7 kB
  • After minification 810.7 kB
  • After compression 541.0 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 269.7 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. Quiltdirect.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (75%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Quilt Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

quiltdirect.com

quiltdirect.com

182 ms

quiltdirect.co.uk

quiltdirect.co.uk

362 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

80 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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107 ms

slick.min.css

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115 ms

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177 ms

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196 ms

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99 ms

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95 ms

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98 ms

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97 ms

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146 ms

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98 ms

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127 ms

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140 ms

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128 ms

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123 ms

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144 ms

responsive.css

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148 ms

eed2mjb.css

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143 ms

css2

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113 ms

polyfill.min.js

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1619 ms

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170 ms

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174 ms

wishlisthero-icons.css

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96 ms

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148 ms

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135 ms

bundle2.js

bundle2.js

182 ms

subscribe_it_js.js

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176 ms

inbox-chat-loader.js

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163 ms

shopify-perf-kit-unstable.min.js

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164 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

98 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

105 ms

special-offers.scss.css

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159 ms

css-vars-ponyfill@2

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32 ms

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19 ms

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162 ms

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161 ms

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154 ms

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310 ms

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91 ms

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125 ms

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194 ms

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88 ms

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660 ms

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26 ms

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font-awesome.min.css

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48 ms

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23 ms

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25 ms

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57 ms

custom.css

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28 ms

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43 ms

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44 ms

style.css

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28 ms

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31 ms

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17 ms

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26 ms

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49 ms

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36 ms

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556 ms

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530 ms

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545 ms

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357 ms

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735 ms

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Accessibility Review

quiltdirect.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

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

quiltdirect.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

quiltdirect.com SEO score

100

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 Quiltdirect.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 Quiltdirect.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

quiltdirect.com

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