Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thepolymerarts.com

The Polymer Arts magazine ... for the polymer clay artist

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

310 ms

Resources Loaded

940 ms

Page Rendered

164 ms

thepolymerarts.com screenshot

About Website

Visit thepolymerarts.com now to see the best up-to-date The Polymer Arts content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thepolymerarts.com

Polymer clay artist's magazine with articles on polymer clay design, techniques, tutorials, selling, events, and the life & craft of polymer clay artists with galleries, interviews, resources & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepolymerarts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 310 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepolymerarts.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepolymerarts.com

310 ms

analytics.js

18 ms

follow-on-pinterest-button.png

15 ms

siteseal.js

142 ms

form.js

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Thepolymerarts.com, 17% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 14% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (572 ms) belongs to the original domain Thepolymerarts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

695.9 kB

After Optimization

578.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Thepolymerarts.com main page is 695.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 642.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 32.4 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 26.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 91.7 kB

  • Original 642.5 kB
  • After minification 550.8 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, The Polymer Arts needs image optimization as it can save up to 91.7 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (47%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Polymer Arts. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thepolymerarts.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

Best Practices

thepolymerarts.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thepolymerarts.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thepolymerarts.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thepolymerarts.com 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

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