Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

androidcentral.com

Android Central - News, Reviews, Deals & Help on all Android devices

Page Load Speed

158.5 sec in total

First Response

407 ms

Resources Loaded

120.5 sec

Page Rendered

37.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Androidcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 407 ms and then it took 158.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 64 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

androidcentral.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value48,450 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value72.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

androidcentral.com

407 ms

www.androidcentral.com

1077 ms

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865 ms

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2052 ms

font-awesome.css

4625 ms

Our browser made a total of 247 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Androidcentral.com, 8% (20 requests) were made to Pixel.adsafeprotected.com and 6% (15 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (23.3 sec) relates to the external source S.youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.3 MB (33%)

Content Size

13.0 MB

After Optimization

8.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Androidcentral.com main page is 13.0 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 241.2 kB

  • Original 332.7 kB
  • After minification 332.6 kB
  • After compression 91.5 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 241.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 7.0 MB
  • After minification 6.9 MB

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. Android Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.1 MB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.5 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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 3.1 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 906.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 206.6 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. Androidcentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 906.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 116 (71%)

Requests Now

164

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 164 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Android Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

androidcentral.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

androidcentral.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

androidcentral.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Androidcentral.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 Androidcentral.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 data is detected on the main page of Android Central. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: