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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

alexstechthoughts.com

Alex's Tech Thoughts

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

291 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

681 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexstechthoughts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 291 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alexstechthoughts.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alexstechthoughts.com

291 ms

pre_tumblelog.js

102 ms

index.build.css

105 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

109 ms

cufon-yui.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Alexstechthoughts.com, 29% (19 requests) were made to Static.tumblr.com and 24% (16 requests) were made to 64.media.tumblr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (390 ms) relates to the external source 64.media.tumblr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

572.1 kB

After Optimization

437.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alexstechthoughts.com main page is 572.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 374.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 108.9 kB

  • Original 130.7 kB
  • After minification 119.0 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 108.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 374.4 kB
  • After minification 348.9 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. Alex S Tech Thoughts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 311 B

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 63.9 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 393 B

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Alexstechthoughts.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 393 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (35%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alex S Tech Thoughts. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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291 ms

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102 ms

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105 ms

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109 ms

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108 ms

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123 ms

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139 ms

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104 ms

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108 ms

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89 ms

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9 ms

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12 ms

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30 ms

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29 ms

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Accessibility Review

alexstechthoughts.com accessibility score

61

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.

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

alexstechthoughts.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

alexstechthoughts.com SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Alex S Tech Thoughts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: