Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

Page Load Speed

59.3 sec in total

First Response

473 ms

Resources Loaded

20.2 sec

Page Rendered

38.6 sec

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About Website

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SaltWorks is America's Sea Salt Company®. Offering the largest selection of all-natural sea salt in the world, SaltWorks is the most trusted name in artisan gourmet salts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saltworks.us page load time and found that the first response time was 473 ms and then it took 58.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saltworks.us performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,750 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saltworks.us

473 ms

www.seasalt.com

1363 ms

main.css

1049 ms

ie.css

1747 ms

home.css

2464 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Saltworks.us, 84% (69 requests) were made to Seasalt.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.4 sec) relates to the external source Js.bronto.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 993.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Saltworks.us main page is 4.4 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 55.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 58.8 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. Saltworks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 718.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 817.5 kB
  • After compression 339.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 718.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 161.7 kB

  • Original 194.0 kB
  • After minification 184.2 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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. Saltworks.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 161.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (59%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saltworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

saltworks.us 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

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

SEO Factors

saltworks.us 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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Saltworks.us can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Saltworks.us 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 description is not detected on the main page of Saltworks. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: