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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

woolandthegang.co.uk

Knitting and Crochet Kits, Yarns, and Supplies | Wool and the Gang

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

1000 ms

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

woolandthegang.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit woolandthegang.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Wool And The Gang content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about woolandthegang.co.uk

We are all about making knitting fun and accessible for all. Browse hundreds of knit kits and patterns as well as sustainably sourced yarns and knitting needles on our site.

Visit woolandthegang.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Woolandthegang.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

woolandthegang.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

woolandthegang.co.uk

316 ms

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275 ms

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Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Woolandthegang.co.uk, 65% (35 requests) were made to D3rfhm6ilkew5i.cloudfront.net and 17% (9 requests) were made to Images.ctfassets.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (316 ms) belongs to the original domain Woolandthegang.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Woolandthegang.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 153.6 kB

  • Original 187.8 kB
  • After minification 163.0 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 24.8 kB, which is 13% 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 153.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 132 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Wool And The Gang images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 389.7 kB
  • After minification 389.7 kB
  • After compression 380.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 79.1 kB
  • After compression 79.1 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. Woolandthegang.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (34%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wool And The Gang. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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316 ms

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Accessibility Review

woolandthegang.co.uk accessibility score

78

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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

woolandthegang.co.uk 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

woolandthegang.co.uk SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Woolandthegang.co.uk 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 Woolandthegang.co.uk 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

woolandthegang.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Wool And The Gang. 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: