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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

rubynow.com

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rubynow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 1.3 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

rubynow.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,930 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rubynow.com

210 ms

jobs.rubynow.com

249 ms

screen.css

75 ms

formtastic.css

144 ms

formtastic_changes.css

145 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rubynow.com, 64% (16 requests) were made to Jobs.rubynow.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (299 ms) relates to the external source Jobs.rubynow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 194.5 kB (73%)

Content Size

267.6 kB

After Optimization

73.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rubynow.com main page is 267.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 187.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 9.5 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.1 kB, which is 11% 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 7.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 5.4 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, Ruby Now needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 133.3 kB

  • Original 187.6 kB
  • After minification 146.4 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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 133.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 62.5 kB
  • After minification 45.3 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Rubynow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (78%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ruby Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rubynow.com

rubynow.com

210 ms

jobs.rubynow.com

jobs.rubynow.com

249 ms

screen.css

screen.css

75 ms

formtastic.css

formtastic.css

144 ms

formtastic_changes.css

formtastic_changes.css

145 ms

application.css

application.css

149 ms

error.css

error.css

147 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

47 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

69 ms

rails_jquery.js

rails_jquery.js

299 ms

jquery.metadata.js

jquery.metadata.js

286 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

64 ms

jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js

jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js

288 ms

application.js

application.js

285 ms

active_scaffold.js

active_scaffold.js

298 ms

date_picker_bridge.js

date_picker_bridge.js

289 ms

jquery.editinplace.js

jquery.editinplace.js

298 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

289 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

163 ms

ga.js

ga.js

135 ms

logo.png

logo.png

161 ms

feed.png

feed.png

163 ms

WRe0.js

WRe0.js

114 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

109 ms

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

141 ms

Accessibility Review

rubynow.com accessibility score

85

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rubynow.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rubynow.com SEO score

85

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

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 Rubynow.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 Rubynow.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

rubynow.com

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