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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thegrindstone.us

The Grindstone

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

353 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thegrindstone.us homepage info - get ready to check The Grindstone best content right away, or after learning these important things about thegrindstone.us

We are a lifestyle store selling hand crafted wellness and organic teas and single origin traceable Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Specialy hand blended Spoces and rubs, olive soaps from Greece and

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegrindstone.us page load time and found that the first response time was 145 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

thegrindstone.us performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegrindstone.us

145 ms

thegrindstone.us

77 ms

www.thegrindstone.us

597 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

78 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Thegrindstone.us, 46% (12 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 19% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) belongs to the original domain Thegrindstone.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 113.8 kB (33%)

Content Size

349.0 kB

After Optimization

235.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thegrindstone.us main page is 349.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 129.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 103.2 kB

  • Original 119.0 kB
  • After minification 101.0 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 18.1 kB, which is 15% 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 103.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 129.0 kB
  • After minification 129.0 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. The Grindstone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 101.0 kB
  • After minification 101.0 kB
  • After compression 90.3 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 10.7 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (61%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Grindstone. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegrindstone.us

thegrindstone.us

145 ms

thegrindstone.us

thegrindstone.us

77 ms

www.thegrindstone.us

www.thegrindstone.us

597 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

78 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

theme-bundle.head_async.js

58 ms

css

css

77 ms

theme-bundle.font.js

theme-bundle.font.js

60 ms

theme-2b12c930-b56c-013c-768b-3ebdce91bb5a.css

theme-2b12c930-b56c-013c-768b-3ebdce91bb5a.css

116 ms

js

js

197 ms

loader.js

loader.js

76 ms

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62 ms

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256 ms

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consent-manager-08633fe15aba542118c03f6d45457262fa9fac88.js

114 ms

theme-bundle.main.js

theme-bundle.main.js

196 ms

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113 ms

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thegrindstone_logo_hires_4057x1081_1592966990__84840.original.jpg

121 ms

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Tree_Awards_low.jpg

122 ms

loading.svg

loading.svg

120 ms

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36 ms

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53 ms

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70 ms

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182 ms

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70 ms

js

js

84 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

44 ms

collect

collect

78 ms

Accessibility Review

thegrindstone.us accessibility score

86

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

thegrindstone.us best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thegrindstone.us SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thegrindstone.us 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 Thegrindstone.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

thegrindstone.us

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