Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

smocking.com

Creative Smocking - sewing, smocking, pleaters, sewing supplies, smocking supplies

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

376 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smocking.com page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smocking.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.45

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smocking.com

124 ms

www.smocking.com

371 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

124 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.js

113 ms

json2.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Smocking.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Sealserver.trustkeeper.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Seal.networksolutions.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (435 ms) belongs to the original domain Smocking.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 645.8 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

688.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Smocking.com main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 720.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 149.7 kB

  • Original 167.2 kB
  • After minification 98.7 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 68.5 kB, which is 41% 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 149.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 181.4 kB

  • Original 720.3 kB
  • After minification 538.8 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. Obviously, Smocking needs image optimization as it can save up to 181.4 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 291.3 kB

  • Original 417.9 kB
  • After minification 348.0 kB
  • After compression 126.6 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 291.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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. Smocking.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (38%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smocking. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smocking.com accessibility score

50

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

smocking.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

smocking.com SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Smocking.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 Smocking.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

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