Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

perlmonks.org

PerlMonks - The Monastery Gates

Page Load Speed

980 ms in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

192 ms

Page Rendered

694 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Perlmonks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 886 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

perlmonks.org performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

perlmonks.org

94 ms

common.css

74 ms

perlmonks.org

81 ms

pair-banner-current.gif

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Perlmonks.org, 25% (1 request) were made to Promote.pair.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (122 ms) relates to the external source Promote.pair.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.5 kB (49%)

Content Size

86.1 kB

After Optimization

43.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Perlmonks.org main page is 86.1 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 51.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 51.6 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. 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 38.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 644 B

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 29.4 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. Perl Monks images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Perlmonks.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Perl Monks. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

perlmonks.org accessibility score

80

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

perlmonks.org best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

perlmonks.org SEO score

64

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Perlmonks.org 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 Perlmonks.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Perl Monks. 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: