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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

thelittlewoolcompany.com

Knitting Wool Suppliers | Alpaca Wool Sale | Buy Yarn Online | D

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

282 ms

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About Website

Visit thelittlewoolcompany.com now to see the best up-to-date Thelittle Wool Company content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thelittlewoolcompany.com

The Little Wool Company produce yarn from their own Alpacas in Devon and also stock a huge range of knitting wool for sale online. Tel: 01409 221699

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelittlewoolcompany.com page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelittlewoolcompany.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,250 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.294

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelittlewoolcompany.com

239 ms

www.thelittlewoolcompany.com

707 ms

standalone.1590b2f24c806bc82d60676fefb990c81713526032.css

27 ms

The-LittleWoolCompany.jpg

23 ms

alpaca_wool.jpg

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Thelittlewoolcompany.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelittlewoolcompany.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelittlewoolcompany.com main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 749.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 185.2 kB

  • Original 201.5 kB
  • After minification 136.7 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 64.8 kB, which is 32% 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 185.2 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 749.4 kB
  • After minification 725.5 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. Thelittle Wool Company images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 392.4 kB
  • After minification 392.4 kB
  • After compression 391.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Thelittlewoolcompany.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (27%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thelittle Wool Company. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelittlewoolcompany.com

thelittlewoolcompany.com

239 ms

www.thelittlewoolcompany.com

www.thelittlewoolcompany.com

707 ms

standalone.1590b2f24c806bc82d60676fefb990c81713526032.css

standalone.1590b2f24c806bc82d60676fefb990c81713526032.css

27 ms

The-LittleWoolCompany.jpg

The-LittleWoolCompany.jpg

23 ms

alpaca_wool.jpg

alpaca_wool.jpg

33 ms

luxury_yarns.jpg

luxury_yarns.jpg

34 ms

yarns2.jpg

yarns2.jpg

31 ms

gifts.jpg

gifts.jpg

33 ms

home_&_garden.jpg

home_&_garden.jpg

35 ms

lifestyle.jpg

lifestyle.jpg

37 ms

css

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30 ms

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ajax_loader.gif

24 ms

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14 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

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43 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

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52 ms

api.js

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31 ms

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jquery.min.js

29 ms

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35 ms

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17 ms

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owl.carousel.min.js

16 ms

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11 ms

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177 ms

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123 ms

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Chilla_Valley_Alpaca_Clotted_Cream_web.jpg

362 ms

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Tickled_Pink_Chilla_Valley_Alpaca_Colours_web.jpg

370 ms

Pickled_Lime_Chilla_Valley_Alpaca_Colours_web.jpg

Pickled_Lime_Chilla_Valley_Alpaca_Colours_web.jpg

363 ms

Pumpkin_Pie_Chilla_Valley_Alpaca_Colours_web.jpg

Pumpkin_Pie_Chilla_Valley_Alpaca_Colours_web.jpg

351 ms

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33 ms

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382 ms

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381 ms

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692 ms

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694 ms

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900 ms

DebbieBlissLogo.png

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1895 ms

Eucalan.jpg

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2897 ms

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1892 ms

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36 ms

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48 ms

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1917 ms

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1941 ms

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21 ms

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1913 ms

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25 ms

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24 ms

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8 ms

Accessibility Review

thelittlewoolcompany.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

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

thelittlewoolcompany.com 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

thelittlewoolcompany.com SEO score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Thelittlewoolcompany.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 Thelittlewoolcompany.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

thelittlewoolcompany.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Thelittle Wool Company. 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: