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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sirdar.co.uk

Knitting and Crochet Kits, Yarns, and Supplies | Sirdar

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sirdar.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 3.3 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

sirdar.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value58.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,830 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.115

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sirdar.co.uk

212 ms

sirdar.com

655 ms

uc.js

38 ms

sirdar_application-70d209678ce5b6eb28e5def06efa61b4e942ee8683e763764db3396e39926113.css

52 ms

sirdar_application-d9fecb4b.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sirdar.co.uk, 46% (33 requests) were made to D3o7ziktawvriq.cloudfront.net and 32% (23 requests) were made to Images.ctfassets.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (655 ms) relates to the external source Sirdar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (9%)

Content Size

27.9 MB

After Optimization

25.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sirdar.co.uk main page is 27.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 26.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 227.7 kB

  • Original 269.8 kB
  • After minification 221.1 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 48.7 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 227.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 26.8 MB
  • After minification 24.7 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. Sirdar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 196.9 kB

  • Original 793.9 kB
  • After minification 787.8 kB
  • After compression 597.0 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 196.9 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. Sirdar.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (31%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

47

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sirdar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sirdar.co.uk

sirdar.co.uk

212 ms

sirdar.com

sirdar.com

655 ms

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38 ms

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52 ms

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56 ms

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67 ms

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73 ms

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46 ms

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56 ms

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102 ms

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102 ms

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171 ms

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185 ms

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166 ms

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179 ms

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209 ms

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185 ms

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203 ms

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269 ms

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180 ms

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171 ms

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174 ms

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187 ms

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176 ms

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177 ms

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203 ms

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189 ms

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262 ms

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204 ms

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Accessibility Review

sirdar.co.uk accessibility score

64

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

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

sirdar.co.uk 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sirdar.co.uk SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Sirdar.co.uk 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 Sirdar.co.uk 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

sirdar.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sirdar. 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: