Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

debatechamber.com

Home - Debate Chamber

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

396 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

467 ms

debatechamber.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Debatechamber.com page load time and found that the first response time was 396 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

debatechamber.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

debatechamber.com

396 ms

style.css

427 ms

styles.css

444 ms

diggdigg-style.css

467 ms

jquery.js

660 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Debatechamber.com, 18% (7 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 15% (6 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Debatechamber.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Debatechamber.com main page is 3.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 20.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 74.7 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Debate Chamber images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 93.0 kB

  • Original 154.1 kB
  • After minification 154.0 kB
  • After compression 61.0 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 93.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. Debatechamber.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (46%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Debate Chamber. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

debatechamber.com accessibility score

76

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

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

debatechamber.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

SEO Factors

debatechamber.com SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Debatechamber.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 Debatechamber.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 description is not detected on the main page of Debate Chamber. 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: