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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com

Private Site

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

397 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com

11 ms

thoughtcatalog.com

22 ms

tag.js

307 ms

ga.js

58 ms

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com, 17% (11 requests) were made to S0.wp.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Thoughtcatalog.files.wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 913.5 kB (44%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 947.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 43.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 807.6 kB
  • After minification 806.4 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. Thoughtcatalog Wordpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 628.6 kB

  • Original 947.4 kB
  • After minification 908.6 kB
  • After compression 318.8 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 628.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 240.0 kB

  • Original 273.9 kB
  • After minification 273.5 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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. Thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (77%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thoughtcatalog Wordpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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11 ms

thoughtcatalog.com

thoughtcatalog.com

22 ms

tag.js

tag.js

307 ms

ga.js

ga.js

58 ms

82 ms

site.css

site.css

88 ms

89 ms

wp-paginate.css

wp-paginate.css

84 ms

118 ms

s2.wp.com

s2.wp.com

118 ms

179 ms

w.js

w.js

77 ms

px.js

px.js

116 ms

px.js

px.js

238 ms

notice

notice

359 ms

impression-counter

impression-counter

80 ms

50108X1235151.skimlinks.js

50108X1235151.skimlinks.js

115 ms

sun2tfl.js

sun2tfl.js

205 ms

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491 ms

seal

seal

481 ms

p.js

p.js

480 ms

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adchoices.png

167 ms

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twitter@2x.png

167 ms

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facebook@2x.png

163 ms

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188 ms

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189 ms

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187 ms

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191 ms

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544 ms

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544 ms

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501 ms

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504 ms

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501 ms

all.js

all.js

606 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

386 ms

itunes_autolinkmaker.js

itunes_autolinkmaker.js

402 ms

impression-counter-common.js

impression-counter-common.js

393 ms

g.gif

g.gif

69 ms

typeahead.bundle.min.js

typeahead.bundle.min.js

68 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

375 ms

quant.js

quant.js

381 ms

chartbeat.js

chartbeat.js

420 ms

segments.json

segments.json

380 ms

g.gif

g.gif

66 ms

g.gif

g.gif

66 ms

count.js

count.js

399 ms

sun2tfl-k.css

sun2tfl-k.css

286 ms

p.gif

p.gif

161 ms

ir

ir

45 ms

ir

ir

45 ms

thoughtcatalog.com

thoughtcatalog.com

29 ms

49 ms

pixel;r=2070331444;a=p-d6ZzqojGtmLys;labels=pagetype.index;fpan=1;fpa=P0-905237484-1458492506039;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=0;sr=1024x768x32;enc=n;dst=0;et=1458492506039;tzo=-180;ref=;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthoughtcatalog.com%2F;ogl=type.website%2Ctitle.Thought%20Catalog%2Curl.http%3A%2F%2Fthoughtcatalog%252Ecom%2F%2Csite_name.Thought%20Catalog%2Cimage.http%3A%2F%2F0%252Egravatar%252Ecom%2Fblavatar%2Fad0dd598237791f07ddddde10a35a828%3Fs%3D200%26ts%3D1458492%2Cimage%3Awidth.200%2Cimage%3Aheight.200%2Clocale.en_US

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44 ms

ping

ping

20 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

37 ms

ptrack-v0.4.10-engaged-time.js

ptrack-v0.4.10-engaged-time.js

36 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

175 ms

20087

20087

56 ms

link

link

148 ms

track.php

track.php

146 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

pubads_impl_82.js

20 ms

114 ms

20214

20214

113 ms

container.html

container.html

37 ms

Accessibility Review

thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thoughtcatalog.wordpress.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

SEO Factors

thoughtcatalog.wordpress.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

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Thoughtcatalog.wordpress.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 Thoughtcatalog.wordpress.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

thoughtcatalog.wordpress.com

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