Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

blogs.constantcontact.com

Marketing Advice Blog | Constant Contact

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

926 ms

Page Rendered

297 ms

blogs.constantcontact.com screenshot

About Website

Visit blogs.constantcontact.com now to see the best up-to-date Blog S Constant Contact content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about blogs.constantcontact.com

Welcome to the Constant Contact marketing advice blog, where small businesses and nonprofits find practical, step-by-step marketing advice to help them do more business, and more for their cause.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.constantcontact.com page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.constantcontact.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.constantcontact.com

50 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

11 ms

mediaelementplayer.min.css

13 ms

wp-mediaelement.css

14 ms

ctct-event-thank-you.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.constantcontact.com, 13% (16 requests) were made to Static.ctctcdn.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (254 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.optimizely.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 869.0 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

541.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.constantcontact.com main page is 1.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 688.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.7 kB

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.2 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 57.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 141.7 kB

  • Original 172.8 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB

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. Obviously, Blog S Constant Contact needs image optimization as it can save up to 141.7 kB or 82% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 456.2 kB

  • Original 688.5 kB
  • After minification 664.3 kB
  • After compression 232.2 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 456.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 213.3 kB

  • Original 477.2 kB
  • After minification 474.5 kB
  • After compression 263.9 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. Blogs.constantcontact.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.3 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (77%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog S Constant Contact. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blogs.constantcontact.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

blogs.constantcontact.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blogs.constantcontact.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Blogs.constantcontact.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 Blogs.constantcontact.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

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