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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

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Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

786 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charactersf.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charactersf.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,440 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charactersf.com

1368 ms

main.min.css

78 ms

main.min.js

287 ms

js

75 ms

teforia_feature_hp1.jpg

463 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Charactersf.com, 51% (32 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Charactersf.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 541.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Charactersf.com main page is 4.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 42.1 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 35.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Charactersf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 445.3 kB

  • Original 672.0 kB
  • After minification 672.0 kB
  • After compression 226.7 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 445.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 40.7 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 49.5 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Charactersf.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (29%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charactersf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

charactersf.com

charactersf.com

1368 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

78 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

287 ms

js

js

75 ms

teforia_feature_hp1.jpg

teforia_feature_hp1.jpg

463 ms

Light_Branding_featured1.jpg

Light_Branding_featured1.jpg

669 ms

Thync_branding_feature.jpg

Thync_branding_feature.jpg

470 ms

Movi_Branding_Hero.jpg

Movi_Branding_Hero.jpg

726 ms

SFDesignWeek_Header.jpg

SFDesignWeek_Header.jpg

628 ms

thumb_h_dropcam_branding.jpg

thumb_h_dropcam_branding.jpg

621 ms

adobe_inkandslide_1a.jpg

adobe_inkandslide_1a.jpg

727 ms

wally_packaging_set_13-1000x563.jpg

wally_packaging_set_13-1000x563.jpg

549 ms

charactersf.com

charactersf.com

1096 ms

logo.png

logo.png

944 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

46 ms

akkurat-light.woff

akkurat-light.woff

349 ms

akkurat-bold.woff

akkurat-bold.woff

385 ms

character_v5.woff

character_v5.woff

424 ms

akkurat.woff

akkurat.woff

450 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

common.js

common.js

20 ms

map.js

map.js

47 ms

util.js

util.js

82 ms

marker.js

marker.js

81 ms

onion.js

onion.js

22 ms

openhand_8_8.cur

openhand_8_8.cur

104 ms

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

95 ms

stats.js

stats.js

35 ms

controls.js

controls.js

28 ms

css

css

96 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

72 ms

google4.png

google4.png

53 ms

mapcnt6.png

mapcnt6.png

85 ms

sv5.png

sv5.png

86 ms

spotlight-poi.png

spotlight-poi.png

85 ms

google_white5.png

google_white5.png

74 ms

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zN7GBFwfMP4uA6AR0HCoLQ.ttf

81 ms

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109 ms

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127 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

14 ms

Accessibility Review

charactersf.com accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

charactersf.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

charactersf.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Charactersf.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 Charactersf.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Charactersf. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: