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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

southerncreations.co.nz

Handcrafted Furniture | Southern Creations & Davies Furniture

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

803 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

317 ms

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About Website

Welcome to southerncreations.co.nz homepage info - get ready to check Southern Creations best content right away, or after learning these important things about southerncreations.co.nz

Southern Creations and Davies Furniture specialise in New Zealand made handcrafted wooden furniture for residential and commercial use.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerncreations.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 803 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southerncreations.co.nz performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southerncreations.co.nz

803 ms

www.southerncreations.co.nz

1566 ms

template_style.css

408 ms

page_style.css

605 ms

zest_controller.js

604 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Southerncreations.co.nz, 60% (26 requests) were made to Images.zeald.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerncreations.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.1 kB (0%)

Content Size

33.7 MB

After Optimization

33.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southerncreations.co.nz main page is 33.7 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 33.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 37.4 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 29.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 59.1 kB

  • Original 33.6 MB
  • After minification 33.6 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. Southern Creations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 41.3 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 7.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. Southerncreations.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (14%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Creations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southerncreations.co.nz

southerncreations.co.nz

803 ms

www.southerncreations.co.nz

www.southerncreations.co.nz

1566 ms

template_style.css

template_style.css

408 ms

page_style.css

page_style.css

605 ms

zest_controller.js

zest_controller.js

604 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

css

css

33 ms

images_slider.js

images_slider.js

603 ms

slider_effect.js

slider_effect.js

604 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

61 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

76 ms

mini-map.png

mini-map.png

69 ms

icon-pinterest.png

icon-pinterest.png

69 ms

mini-magni.png

mini-magni.png

68 ms

btn_search_go.gif

btn_search_go.gif

69 ms

TopLevelMenu.gif

TopLevelMenu.gif

656 ms

Bespoke%20Be%20Different%20(1%20of%201)-3-21-229.jpg

Bespoke%20Be%20Different%20(1%20of%201)-3-21-229.jpg

112 ms

Custom%20Brooklyn%20Parquet%20DIning%20Table%20(2%20of%203)-709.jpg

Custom%20Brooklyn%20Parquet%20DIning%20Table%20(2%20of%203)-709.jpg

120 ms

Classic%20Kauri%20Buffet%20Sideboard%20(1%20of%201)-901.jpg

Classic%20Kauri%20Buffet%20Sideboard%20(1%20of%201)-901.jpg

156 ms

A3.jpg

A3.jpg

116 ms

Brookly%20DIning%20Table%20With%20Custom%20Chairs%20(1%20of%201)-718.jpg

Brookly%20DIning%20Table%20With%20Custom%20Chairs%20(1%20of%201)-718.jpg

169 ms

btn_explore_catalogue.png

btn_explore_catalogue.png

121 ms

btn_contact_for_quote.png

btn_contact_for_quote.png

123 ms

French%20Provincial%20Dining%20table.jpg

French%20Provincial%20Dining%20table.jpg

125 ms

btn_see_more_designs.png

btn_see_more_designs.png

124 ms

Southern%20Creations%20Commercial.jpg

Southern%20Creations%20Commercial.jpg

129 ms

btn_our_process.png

btn_our_process.png

130 ms

Southern%20Creations%20Custom%20Kitchen.jpg

Southern%20Creations%20Custom%20Kitchen.jpg

130 ms

btn_see_latest_products.png

btn_see_latest_products.png

136 ms

icon_feature1.png

icon_feature1.png

135 ms

icon_feature2.png

icon_feature2.png

135 ms

icon_feature3.png

icon_feature3.png

145 ms

quote.gif

quote.gif

141 ms

btn_enquire.gif

btn_enquire.gif

142 ms

QdVUSTchPBm7nuUeVf70viFg.ttf

QdVUSTchPBm7nuUeVf70viFg.ttf

64 ms

black-line.png

black-line.png

131 ms

btn_sign_up.gif

btn_sign_up.gif

1022 ms

OZpEg_xvsDZQL_LKIF7q4jP3w2j_.ttf

OZpEg_xvsDZQL_LKIF7q4jP3w2j_.ttf

44 ms

OZpbg_xvsDZQL_LKIF7q4jP_eE3vcKnd.ttf

OZpbg_xvsDZQL_LKIF7q4jP_eE3vcKnd.ttf

45 ms

footer-pattern.png

footer-pattern.png

114 ms

process

process

617 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

js

js

93 ms

Accessibility Review

southerncreations.co.nz accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southerncreations.co.nz best practices score

67

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

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

SEO Factors

southerncreations.co.nz 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southerncreations.co.nz 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 Southerncreations.co.nz main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

southerncreations.co.nz

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