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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

democracylab.de

Democracy Lab by Berlin think tank Das Progressive Zentrum

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

404 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Democracy Lab content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about democracylab.de

The Democracy Lab is the platform for democratic innovation by the Berlin think tank Das Progressive Zentrum. We develop ideas and projects to help to renew democracy. Please visit our page to access ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Democracylab.de page load time and found that the first response time was 404 ms and then it took 3.5 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

democracylab.de performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.158

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

democracylab.de

404 ms

388 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

110 ms

settings.css

222 ms

style.css

323 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Democracylab.de, 19% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (861 ms) belongs to the original domain Democracylab.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.0 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

853.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Democracylab.de main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 574.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

  • Original 51.6 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 41.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 147.7 kB

  • Original 574.9 kB
  • After minification 427.3 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. Obviously, Democracy Lab needs image optimization as it can save up to 147.7 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 228.2 kB
  • After minification 228.2 kB
  • After compression 221.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 199.7 kB
  • After minification 199.0 kB
  • After compression 193.6 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. Democracylab.de has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (80%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Democracy Lab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

democracylab.de

democracylab.de

404 ms

388 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

110 ms

settings.css

settings.css

222 ms

style.css

style.css

323 ms

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js_composer.min.css

566 ms

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27 ms

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595 ms

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328 ms

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325 ms

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330 ms

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438 ms

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435 ms

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custom.css

627 ms

media.css

media.css

445 ms

post-type-dynamic.css

post-type-dynamic.css

543 ms

style.css

style.css

545 ms

Defaults.css

Defaults.css

555 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

774 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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660 ms

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679 ms

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677 ms

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main.min.js

861 ms

post-type.js

post-type.js

769 ms

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wp-embed.min.js

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218 ms

Accessibility Review

democracylab.de accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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.

SEO Factors

democracylab.de SEO score

97

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