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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

creativeboston.com

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Page Load Speed

433 ms in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

234 ms

Page Rendered

90 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Creativeboston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 324 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

creativeboston.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

creativeboston.com

109 ms

MasterStyles.css

16 ms

CSScriptLib.js

26 ms

logo-2018.png

43 ms

Home-Current.gif

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Creativeboston.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (109 ms) belongs to the original domain Creativeboston.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

445.9 kB

After Optimization

434.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Creativeboston.com main page is 445.9 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 413.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 5.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 413.8 kB
  • After minification 412.3 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. Creative Boston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 5.3 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 170 B

  • Original 375 B
  • After minification 327 B
  • After compression 205 B

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. Creativeboston.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 170 B or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (53%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Creative Boston. 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

creativeboston.com

creativeboston.com

109 ms

MasterStyles.css

MasterStyles.css

16 ms

CSScriptLib.js

CSScriptLib.js

26 ms

logo-2018.png

logo-2018.png

43 ms

Home-Current.gif

Home-Current.gif

41 ms

Portfolio-Normal.gif

Portfolio-Normal.gif

42 ms

Services-Normal.gif

Services-Normal.gif

42 ms

About-Normal.gif

About-Normal.gif

43 ms

Contact-Normal.gif

Contact-Normal.gif

43 ms

Home-Bottom2018.png

Home-Bottom2018.png

93 ms

Horiz-blue-border.gif

Horiz-blue-border.gif

43 ms

Vert-green-border.gif

Vert-green-border.gif

43 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Services-Rollover.gif

Services-Rollover.gif

14 ms

Contact-Rollover.gif

Contact-Rollover.gif

15 ms

About-Rollover.gif

About-Rollover.gif

15 ms

Portfolio-Rollover.gif

Portfolio-Rollover.gif

14 ms

Accessibility Review

creativeboston.com accessibility score

64

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

Best Practices

creativeboston.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

creativeboston.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Creativeboston.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 Creativeboston.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

creativeboston.com

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