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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thepenfactory.ca

The Pen Factory | Plastic & Metal Pens, Pencils, Gift Sets, Portfolios

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

896 ms

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About Website

Visit thepenfactory.ca now to see the best up-to-date The Pen Factory content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thepenfactory.ca

The Pen Factory carries a large selection of plastic & metal ballpoint promotional pens, stylus pens, gift pen sets, wood pencils, novelty pens, highlighters & markers, notebooks & journals, novelty p...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepenfactory.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepenfactory.ca performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.243

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thepenfactory.ca

2212 ms

bootstrap.min.css

178 ms

css

30 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

325 ms

flexslider.css

390 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Thepenfactory.ca, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thepenfactory.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 229.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

884.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thepenfactory.ca main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 651.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 64.3 kB
  • After minification 57.0 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 7.3 kB, which is 11% 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 53.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 651.0 kB
  • After minification 575.4 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, The Pen Factory needs image optimization as it can save up to 75.7 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 191.7 kB
  • After minification 191.2 kB
  • After compression 150.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 41.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 59.6 kB

  • Original 207.2 kB
  • After minification 207.2 kB
  • After compression 147.5 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. Thepenfactory.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 59.6 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (43%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Pen Factory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thepenfactory.ca

www.thepenfactory.ca

2212 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

178 ms

css

css

30 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

325 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

390 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

897 ms

slick.css

slick.css

390 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

392 ms

yamm.css

yamm.css

391 ms

StyleSheet

StyleSheet

556 ms

Pic

Pic

738 ms

Utils.js

Utils.js

563 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

740 ms

migrate-3.1.0.js

migrate-3.1.0.js

563 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

712 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

740 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

738 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

836 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

961 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

961 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

963 ms

iframeResizer.min.js

iframeResizer.min.js

962 ms

IFrameUtils.js

IFrameUtils.js

985 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

jquery.backstretch.min.js

1040 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1042 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1041 ms

highslide-full.packed.js

highslide-full.packed.js

1043 ms

highslide.config.js

highslide.config.js

1041 ms

highslide.css

highslide.css

1069 ms

js

js

50 ms

js

js

97 ms

css

css

12 ms

close.png

close.png

254 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

254 ms

prev.png

prev.png

254 ms

next.png

next.png

253 ms

Pic

Pic

397 ms

Pic

Pic

288 ms

Pic

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586 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

505 ms

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LinkPic

511 ms

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506 ms

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463 ms

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506 ms

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554 ms

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588 ms

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589 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

678 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

598 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

637 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

673 ms

QPic

QPic

694 ms

QPic

QPic

694 ms

QPic

QPic

701 ms

QPic

QPic

746 ms

QPic

QPic

778 ms

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110 ms

QPic

QPic

782 ms

QPic

QPic

772 ms

QPic

QPic

771 ms

QPic

QPic

787 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

1163 ms

fa-light-300.ttf

fa-light-300.ttf

1287 ms

fa-thin-100.ttf

fa-thin-100.ttf

1450 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

1492 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

950 ms

QPic

QPic

813 ms

QPic

QPic

995 ms

QPic

QPic

1019 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

48 ms

QPic

QPic

961 ms

QPic

QPic

1022 ms

QPic

QPic

1050 ms

QPic

QPic

1072 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

QPic

QPic

1100 ms

QPic

QPic

1013 ms

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971 ms

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938 ms

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989 ms

QPic

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1093 ms

QPic

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1106 ms

QPic

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1067 ms

QPic

QPic

1097 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

1109 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

1152 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

1148 ms

custom.png

custom.png

123 ms

zoomout.cur

zoomout.cur

121 ms

loader.white.gif

loader.white.gif

121 ms

flexslider-icon.woff

flexslider-icon.woff

121 ms

Accessibility Review

thepenfactory.ca accessibility score

69

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

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

thepenfactory.ca best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thepenfactory.ca SEO score

91

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

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 Thepenfactory.ca 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 Thepenfactory.ca 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

thepenfactory.ca

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