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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

blog.shopify.com

Ecommerce Marketing Blog - Ecommerce News, Online Store Tips and More by Shopify

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

821 ms

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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About Website

Visit blog.shopify.com now to see the best up-to-date Blog Shopify content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blog.shopify.com

A blog about ecommerce marketing, running an online business and updates to Shopify's ecommerce community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.shopify.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.shopify.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.shopify.com

37 ms

blog.shopify.com

71 ms

blog

425 ms

blog-TPPVAU3Q.css

49 ms

Blog_Header_02.png

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.shopify.com, 70% (21 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 17% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (425 ms) relates to the external source Shopify.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.shopify.com main page is 5.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 232.9 kB

  • Original 287.2 kB
  • After minification 287.2 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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 232.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Blog Shopify images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Shopify. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.shopify.com

blog.shopify.com

37 ms

blog.shopify.com

blog.shopify.com

71 ms

blog

blog

425 ms

blog-TPPVAU3Q.css

blog-TPPVAU3Q.css

49 ms

Blog_Header_02.png

Blog_Header_02.png

97 ms

how_20to_20start_20an_20online_20store.png

how_20to_20start_20an_20online_20store.png

99 ms

shopify_20stores.png

shopify_20stores.png

45 ms

google-rock-wall.jpg

google-rock-wall.jpg

62 ms

social_20media_20marketing.jpg

social_20media_20marketing.jpg

79 ms

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52 ms

find-manufacturer-supplier.jpg

find-manufacturer-supplier.jpg

69 ms

conversion_20rate_20optimization.png

conversion_20rate_20optimization.png

81 ms

Health_MentalHealthEntrepreneurship_1_0b1be2da-1f58-474a-9410-2c7e681ba2b6.jpg

Health_MentalHealthEntrepreneurship_1_0b1be2da-1f58-474a-9410-2c7e681ba2b6.jpg

119 ms

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young-entrepreneur-header.jpg

93 ms

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130 ms

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Partly-Sunny-Projects-TikTok-Business.jpg

128 ms

Masters_BlogTemplate-Tori-Dunlap.jpg

Masters_BlogTemplate-Tori-Dunlap.jpg

112 ms

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Masters_BlogTemplate-August_B.jpg

145 ms

Masters_BlogTemplate-TIMMCHIUSANO.jpg

Masters_BlogTemplate-TIMMCHIUSANO.jpg

191 ms

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Masters_BlogTemplate-GYM_COFFEE_B.jpg

141 ms

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146 ms

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passive_20income_20ideas.jpg

145 ms

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148 ms

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shopify_dropshipping_chapter_5.jpg

189 ms

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48 ms

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76 ms

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13 ms

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27 ms

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28 ms

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27 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.shopify.com accessibility score

83

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

blog.shopify.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blog.shopify.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Blog.shopify.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 Blog.shopify.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

blog.shopify.com

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