Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

engineers.com

The Engineers' Club - Technical resources, software, Jobs

Page Load Speed

341 ms in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

162 ms

Page Rendered

75 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 237 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

engineers.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineers.com

104 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

37 ms

urchin.js

5 ms

__utm.gif

3 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Engineers.com, 50% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (104 ms) belongs to the original domain Engineers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

14.0 kB

After Optimization

8.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Engineers.com main page is 14.0 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 10.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 4.0 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 2.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 10.1 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 3.3 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineers. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

engineers.com accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

engineers.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

engineers.com SEO score

58

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Engineers.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 Engineers.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

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