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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 47

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

buildradicals.com

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Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

902 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildradicals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 902 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildradicals.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildradicals.com

902 ms

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21 ms

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37 ms

adsbygoogle.js

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Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Buildradicals.com, 13% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Buildradicals.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 375.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildradicals.com main page is 3.0 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 151.7 kB

  • Original 185.4 kB
  • After minification 169.8 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 151.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Build Radicals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 152.6 kB

  • Original 719.3 kB
  • After minification 719.2 kB
  • After compression 566.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 152.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 52.8 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. Buildradicals.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (39%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build Radicals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

buildradicals.com accessibility score

47

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

buildradicals.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buildradicals.com SEO score

92

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 Buildradicals.com 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 Buildradicals.com 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

buildradicals.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Build Radicals. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: