Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

crasstalk.com

Crasstalk

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

874 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crasstalk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 874 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crasstalk.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crasstalk.com

874 ms

cloudflare.min.js

30 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

21 ms

widget.css

36 ms

google_fonts_oswald.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Crasstalk.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Intensedebate.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (874 ms) belongs to the original domain Crasstalk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Crasstalk.com main page is 2.3 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. 70% 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 59.6 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.7 kB, which is 14% 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 59.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.2 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. Crasstalk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 142.8 kB

  • Original 240.4 kB
  • After minification 240.2 kB
  • After compression 97.6 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 142.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 83.3 kB
  • After minification 80.3 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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. Crasstalk.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (65%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crasstalk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

crasstalk.com accessibility score

94

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

crasstalk.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

crasstalk.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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