Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

referenceline.com

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Referenceline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

referenceline.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

referenceline.com

163 ms

www.referenceline.com

783 ms

referenceline.css

91 ms

referenceline_whiteheader.css

169 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

253 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Referenceline.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (783 ms) belongs to the original domain Referenceline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

873.7 kB

After Optimization

776.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Referenceline.com main page is 873.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 751.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 29.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 45.5 kB

  • Original 751.6 kB
  • After minification 706.1 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. Referenceline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 67.8 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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 15.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. Referenceline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (29%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Referenceline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

referenceline.com accessibility score

78

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

referenceline.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

referenceline.com SEO score

58

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Referenceline.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Referenceline.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Referenceline. 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: