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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

techzulu.com

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Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

563 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

271 ms

About Website

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Based in Los Angeles, California, TechZulu is an independent news organization delivering an insightful story of the technology industry by showcasing the very people creating it. Our mission is simpl...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techzulu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 563 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

techzulu.com performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

techzulu.com

563 ms

slim-081711.css

30 ms

style.css

74 ms

jquery.min.js

37 ms

scripts.js

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Techzulu.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (563 ms) belongs to the original domain Techzulu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 149.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

688.9 kB

After Optimization

539.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Techzulu.com main page is 688.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 344.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.3 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 37.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 284.7 kB
  • After minification 268.1 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. Tech Zulu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 93.4 kB

  • Original 344.1 kB
  • After minification 343.9 kB
  • After compression 250.7 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 93.4 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Techzulu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (51%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tech Zulu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

techzulu.com accessibility score

69

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

techzulu.com best practices score

67

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

techzulu.com SEO score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Techzulu.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 Techzulu.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 Tech Zulu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: