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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

theblotsays.com

The Blot Says...

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

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The Blot Says is a pop culture art blog covering designer toys, comic books, screen prints, t-shirts, vinyl figures, action figures & movie posters

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theblotsays.com page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theblotsays.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theblotsays.com

63 ms

www.theblotsays.com

237 ms

2973171168-css_bundle_v2.css

78 ms

authorization.css

225 ms

jquery.min.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 188 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Theblotsays.com, 7% (14 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to 2.bp.blogspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (946 ms) relates to the external source Entertainmentearth.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (37%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theblotsays.com main page is 2.7 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. 80% 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 615.8 kB

  • Original 723.1 kB
  • After minification 720.1 kB
  • After compression 107.4 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 615.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 52.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. The Blot Says images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 305.0 kB

  • Original 639.9 kB
  • After minification 639.2 kB
  • After compression 334.9 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 305.0 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Theblotsays.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (43%)

Requests Now

179

After Optimization

102

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 179 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Blot Says. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

theblotsays.com accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

theblotsays.com best practices score

50

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

theblotsays.com SEO score

57

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theblotsays.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Theblotsays.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 description is not detected on the main page of The Blot Says. 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: