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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

earthfiles.com

Earthfiles – Reported and Edited by Linda Moulton Howe

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

3.8 sec

earthfiles.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Earthfiles.com page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

earthfiles.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.306

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

earthfiles.com

51 ms

www.earthfiles.com

1023 ms

earthfiles.css

35 ms

buttons.js

38 ms

show_ads.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Earthfiles.com, 3% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Earthfiles.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 265.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Earthfiles.com main page is 3.9 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 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 100.0 kB

  • Original 139.8 kB
  • After minification 139.8 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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 100.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 147.5 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Earthfiles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 50.9 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 9.9 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Earthfiles.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (16%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

129

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Earthfiles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

earthfiles.com

earthfiles.com

51 ms

www.earthfiles.com

www.earthfiles.com

1023 ms

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earthfiles.css

35 ms

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Accessibility Review

earthfiles.com accessibility score

82

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

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

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

earthfiles.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

earthfiles.com SEO score

69

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Earthfiles.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Earthfiles.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

earthfiles.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Earthfiles. 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: