Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

codeup.com

HOME | Codeup

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

773 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

508 ms

codeup.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Codeup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 773 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

codeup.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.678

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

codeup.com

773 ms

2099161091.js

40 ms

642f03f135297eebfa4c9fb51403f7e734a56a4c.js

35 ms

admissions.css

93 ms

codeup-numbers.css

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Codeup.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (815 ms) belongs to the original domain Codeup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 507.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Codeup.com 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 38.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 122.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Codeup images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 266.8 kB

  • Original 440.4 kB
  • After minification 412.8 kB
  • After compression 173.6 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 266.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 96.0 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. Codeup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (40%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Codeup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

codeup.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

codeup.com best practices score

77

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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

codeup.com SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Codeup.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 Codeup.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 data is detected on the main page of Codeup. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: