Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

block8.io

Block8 - Top Blockchain Development Company Australia

Page Load Speed

14.3 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

13.7 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Block8.io page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 14.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

block8.io performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

block8.io

133 ms

block8.com

5620 ms

jquery-1.7.1.js

246 ms

layout.min.css

457 ms

main.min.css

1681 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Block8.io, 77% (76 requests) were made to Block8.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) relates to the external source Block8.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Block8.io main page is 2.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 118.1 kB

  • Original 140.8 kB
  • After minification 118.4 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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 22.4 kB, which is 16% 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 118.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Block8 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 202.3 kB
  • After minification 202.3 kB
  • After compression 201.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 246.0 kB
  • After minification 246.0 kB
  • After compression 243.2 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. Block8.io has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (63%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Block8. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

block8.io accessibility score

70

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

block8.io best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

block8.io SEO score

62

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

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 Block8.io 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 Block8.io 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 Block8. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: