Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

ucomics.com

Today's Comics Online | Read Comic Strips at GoComics

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

About Website

Visit ucomics.com now to see the best up-to-date U Comics content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ucomics.com

Welcome to GoComics.com, the world's largest comic strip site for online classic strips like Calvin and Hobbes, Baby Blues, Non Sequitur, Get Fuzzy, Luann, Pearl Before Swine, 9 Chickweed Lane and mor...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucomics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1.3 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

ucomics.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucomics.com

38 ms

www.gocomics.com

186 ms

application-gc-214e762a1f5483f88ac9ec954ba92d37520b9534164826e23866abe6f611cfe1.css

231 ms

application-gc-preload-aa38a5260cf72a4e9bbf0c33ceddbd885ea4e633a1c708ce6701b8d28368a3d2.js

225 ms

cls.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ucomics.com, 48% (21 requests) were made to Avatar.amuniversal.com and 20% (9 requests) were made to Assets.gocomics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (569 ms) relates to the external source Avatar.amuniversal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Ucomics.com main page is 1.6 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 60.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. U Comics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 345 B

  • Original 385.8 kB
  • After minification 385.8 kB
  • After compression 385.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 66.0 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. Ucomics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (27%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of U Comics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ucomics.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

ucomics.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

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

SEO Factors

ucomics.com SEO score

88

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Ucomics.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 Ucomics.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 U Comics. 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: