Web page test

[behzad]

There are number of online web page test that gives you xara performance results/score. What is the best one that is used? How should we deal with the results. I know many are not relevant with how xara outputs its content.

Here is one result from webpagetest.org

[Spamiky]

[ukDalek]

My web designer 19 site


A well known high uk street clothes retailer site

[Egg Bramhill]

Much of the things that mark down your page is often beyond simple control:

For example: Loading js files:

By default, references to external JavaScript files will block the page from rendering while they are fetched and executed. Often, these files can be loaded in a different manner, freeing up the page to visually render sooner.

• /index_htm_files/highslide.js
• /index_htm_files/roe.js
• /index_htm_files/replaceMobileFonts.js
• /index_htm_files/prs4.js

And again loading css files:

By default, references to external CSS files will block the page from rendering while they are fetched and executed. Sometimes these files _should_ block rendering, but can be inlined to avoid additional round-trips while the page is waiting to render. Sometimes, such as with stylesheets that are only used for loading custom fonts, inline or async CSS can greatly improve perceived performance.

• /index_htm_files/xr_fonts.css
• /index_htm_files/highslide.css
• /index_htm_files/xr_main.css
• /index_htm_files/custom_styles.css
• /index_htm_files/xr_text.css
• /index_htm_files/xr_all.css
• /index_htm_files/ani.css

I remember there was a thread on here re lazy loading.

Images outside the critical viewport can be lazy-loaded.When images are lazy-loaded using loading="lazy", when they scroll into the viewport, freeing up early load for other tasks.

• index_htm_files/town-cryer.webp
• https://htrsm.co.uk/index_htm_files/map-pointer@2x.webp
• index_htm_files/friends-button.webp

Here's one I don't know how to work-around:

When fonts are loaded with default display settings, like font-display="block", browsers will hide text entirely for several seconds instead of showing text with a fallback font.

• "xr2_Gill Sans" bold normal
• "xr5_Gill Sans1" bold normal
• "Open Sans Extrabold" 800 normal
• "Open Sans" normal normal

Accessability....

Axe found 4 accessibility issues: 1 critical, 3 serious,

This should be fixable:

Iframe has no title attribute nor aria-label attribute

Xara has no ability to include a 'title' nor 'aria-label' to links:

Links must have decernable text.

I use object to load my animated svg's. I was unaware these required an alt tag

<object> elements must have alt tags

Just my thoughts on these issues

[behzad]

Yes gang, it is all xara and most likely out of our control unless your a xara wizard like acron

[Egg Bramhill]

There's this excellent thread by sculptex:
LINK

[behzad]

Yes seen that, however many things have changed with google and their ranking. SEO is an ever changing situation and one that I thought Xara said they will keep up with, but....

[bwood]

There's this excellent thread by sculptex:
LINK

Thanks Egg. I have book marked. Upon reading I now understand why so many pay for an SEO service. There’s a thread from @acorn on optimizing if I recall. If memory serves making your own nav bars helped optimization. A few other things as well. I have a site which is extremely picture heavy and notably slow. I can certainly fix the carousels etc, but js is new to me. Html and css I do know.