Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

itex.com

ITEX - a small business community and barter network

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

366 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itex.com page load time and found that the first response time was 366 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itex.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,560 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itex.com

366 ms

www.itex.com

443 ms

Base.css

330 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.5.custom.css

332 ms

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

496 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Itex.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (659 ms) belongs to the original domain Itex.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 543.2 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

824.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Itex.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 644.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 22.6 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 15.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 643.6 kB
  • After minification 626.8 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. ITEX images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 463.9 kB

  • Original 644.8 kB
  • After minification 580.9 kB
  • After compression 180.9 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 463.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. Itex.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (60%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ITEX. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

itex.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

itex.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

itex.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Itex.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 Itex.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 ITEX. 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: