crochetsample.com website review

9 images could be 853 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 51. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, Google Tag Manager and Google FundingChoices and others), adding 848 KiB and 585 ms of main-thread time.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 550 ms).

37 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (221 KiB).

About 77 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 312 ms of main-thread work and 288 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

About 297 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 156 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The layout shifts by 0.625 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

The page becomes fully interactive after 10.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 4.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “30-free-our-top-tips-for-successful-crochet-socks-ideas-new…”.

10 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 87 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (17), scripts 748 KiB (25) and fonts 233 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

7 images further down the page (306 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

6 images (279 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.72 g of CO₂e: 86.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

6 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

5 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your title is only 25 characters: “crochetsample. com - Blog”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is only 4 characters: “Blog”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to 94 pages on crochetsample.com and 30 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no https://www.crochetsample.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

https://www.crochetsample.com/category/crochet-cardigan, https://www.crochetsample.com/category/crochet-gloves, https://www.crochetsample.com/category/crochet-sweater, https://www.crochetsample.com/category/crochet-hat, https://www.crochetsample.com/category/crochet-bracelet and https://www.crochetsample.com/category/crochet-clothes and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 37 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

11 of 34 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 239 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.