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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

theshadeshop.net

Houston Custom Window Coverings - Outdoor Porch & Patio Shading Solutions | The Shade Shop

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

724 ms

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About Website

Visit theshadeshop.net now to see the best up-to-date The Shade Shop content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about theshadeshop.net

A family business since 1918, The Shade Shop furnishes and installs custom shutters, blinds, draperies, motorized shades and outdoor shading solutions. Contact us today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theshadeshop.net page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theshadeshop.net performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value980 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theshadeshop.net

70 ms

theshadeshop.net

355 ms

plugins.css

68 ms

styles.css

124 ms

responsive.css

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Theshadeshop.net, 9% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (524 ms) belongs to the original domain Theshadeshop.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.3 kB (1%)

Content Size

7.6 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theshadeshop.net main page is 7.6 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. 80% 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 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 66.6 kB

  • Original 80.5 kB
  • After minification 72.2 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 66.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 692 B

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 7.2 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. The Shade Shop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 218.7 kB
  • After minification 218.7 kB
  • After compression 208.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 76.9 kB
  • After compression 67.3 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. Theshadeshop.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (24%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Shade Shop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theshadeshop.net

theshadeshop.net

70 ms

theshadeshop.net

theshadeshop.net

355 ms

plugins.css

plugins.css

68 ms

styles.css

styles.css

124 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

98 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

22 ms

platform.js

platform.js

37 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

171 ms

css

css

35 ms

css

css

53 ms

instafeed.js

instafeed.js

105 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

105 ms

apbct_public.js

apbct_public.js

106 ms

platform.js

platform.js

42 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

215 ms

Shade-Shop-Logo-NEW.png

Shade-Shop-Logo-NEW.png

184 ms

shutters-nav1.jpg

shutters-nav1.jpg

251 ms

shades-nav.jpg

shades-nav.jpg

305 ms

blinds-nav.jpg

blinds-nav.jpg

251 ms

drape-nav.jpg

drape-nav.jpg

286 ms

outdoor-nav.jpg

outdoor-nav.jpg

286 ms

App-Nav.jpg

App-Nav.jpg

342 ms

theshadeshop.net

theshadeshop.net

451 ms

1-banner-1.jpg

1-banner-1.jpg

314 ms

HP-CustomPlan_shutt.jpg

HP-CustomPlan_shutt.jpg

317 ms

3-banner-3.jpg

3-banner-3.jpg

317 ms

4-banner-4.jpg

4-banner-4.jpg

338 ms

5-banner-5.jpg

5-banner-5.jpg

390 ms

shutters-icon.png

shutters-icon.png

348 ms

shades-icon.png

shades-icon.png

348 ms

blinds-icon.png

blinds-icon.png

367 ms

draperies-icon.png

draperies-icon.png

387 ms

outdooer-icon.png

outdooer-icon.png

388 ms

motorization-icon.png

motorization-icon.png

389 ms

section1-bottom-photo.jpg

section1-bottom-photo.jpg

397 ms

section1-top-photo.jpg

section1-top-photo.jpg

419 ms

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1.png

419 ms

1-circle.png

1-circle.png

420 ms

2.png

2.png

422 ms

2-circle.png

2-circle.png

427 ms

3.png

3.png

450 ms

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3-circle.png

450 ms

4.png

4.png

451 ms

4-circle.png

4-circle.png

452 ms

5.png

5.png

457 ms

5-circle.png

5-circle.png

483 ms

number-small.png

number-small.png

483 ms

a_showroom_1.jpg

a_showroom_1.jpg

524 ms

b_showroom_1.jpg

b_showroom_1.jpg

523 ms

3_showroom_1.jpg

3_showroom_1.jpg

482 ms

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31 ms

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70 ms

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69 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

315 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

342 ms

embed

embed

358 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

275 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

242 ms

4_showroo_1.jpg

4_showroo_1.jpg

271 ms

5_showroom_1.jpg

5_showroom_1.jpg

294 ms

6_showroom_1.jpg

6_showroom_1.jpg

274 ms

7_showroom_1.jpg

7_showroom_1.jpg

269 ms

8_showroom_1.jpg

8_showroom_1.jpg

242 ms

9_showroom_1.jpg

9_showroom_1.jpg

243 ms

quotes.png

quotes.png

222 ms

100-Years-Banner-300.png

100-Years-Banner-300.png

243 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

238 ms

js

js

27 ms

print.css

print.css

33 ms

search.js

search.js

4 ms

geometry.js

geometry.js

6 ms

main.js

main.js

13 ms

Accessibility Review

theshadeshop.net accessibility score

86

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

theshadeshop.net 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

theshadeshop.net 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 Theshadeshop.net 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 Theshadeshop.net 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

theshadeshop.net

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