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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

thefinancebuff.com

The Finance Buff - Like a Friend Telling You About Money

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

400 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefinancebuff.com page load time and found that the first response time was 400 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefinancebuff.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,860 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefinancebuff.com

400 ms

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css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Thefinancebuff.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Ad.wsod.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

730.1 kB

After Optimization

519.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefinancebuff.com main page is 730.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 309.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 47.8 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 35.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 294.2 kB
  • After minification 294.2 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. The Finance Buff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 133.3 kB

  • Original 309.9 kB
  • After minification 306.4 kB
  • After compression 176.6 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 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 78.0 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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. Thefinancebuff.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.0 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (73%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Finance Buff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thefinancebuff.com accessibility score

87

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.

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

thefinancebuff.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thefinancebuff.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thefinancebuff.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 Thefinancebuff.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

thefinancebuff.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Finance Buff. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: