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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

bluecrab.info

BLUECRAB.INFO - The Blue Crab Archives

Page Load Speed

313 ms in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

161 ms

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing BLUECRAB content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bluecrab.info

Everything about blue crabs including science and biology, industry and consumer topics, and chicken-necking!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluecrab.info page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 289 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bluecrab.info performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluecrab.info

24 ms

www.bluecrab.info

30 ms

ga.js

33 ms

brand

20 ms

crab_background.gif

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Bluecrab.info, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (57 ms) relates to the external source Cse.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

63.2 kB

After Optimization

52.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Bluecrab.info main page is 63.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 32.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. 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 8.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 30.4 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. BLUECRAB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (25%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BLUECRAB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bluecrab.info

bluecrab.info

24 ms

www.bluecrab.info

www.bluecrab.info

30 ms

ga.js

ga.js

33 ms

brand

brand

20 ms

crab_background.gif

crab_background.gif

8 ms

bcilogo.gif

bcilogo.gif

10 ms

TL.gif

TL.gif

6 ms

TC.gif

TC.gif

7 ms

TR.gif

TR.gif

8 ms

LC.gif

LC.gif

8 ms

button7.jpg

button7.jpg

9 ms

clawtexture.jpg

clawtexture.jpg

10 ms

gc.jpg

gc.jpg

9 ms

donate.gif

donate.gif

10 ms

brand

brand

57 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

RC.gif

RC.gif

3 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

25 ms

BL.gif

BL.gif

7 ms

BC.gif

BC.gif

7 ms

BR.gif

BR.gif

7 ms

button8.jpg

button8.jpg

3 ms

button9.jpg

button9.jpg

3 ms

Accessibility Review

bluecrab.info accessibility score

68

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bluecrab.info 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

bluecrab.info SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bluecrab.info 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 Bluecrab.info main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

bluecrab.info

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BLUECRAB. 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: