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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

designsponge.com

Design*Sponge

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designsponge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

designsponge.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

designsponge.com

64 ms

www.designsponge.com

112 ms

style10.css

79 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

conditionizr.min.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Designsponge.com, 6% (9 requests) were made to Scontent-ord1-1.cdninstagram.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Designsponge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 996.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

9.0 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Designsponge.com main page is 9.0 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 8.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 121.8 kB

  • Original 153.8 kB
  • After minification 139.0 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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 121.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 360.5 kB

  • Original 8.0 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Design Sponge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 449.1 kB

  • Original 758.7 kB
  • After minification 721.1 kB
  • After compression 309.5 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 449.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 83.0 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. Designsponge.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (40%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

82

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design Sponge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

designsponge.com accessibility score

83

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

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

ARIA IDs 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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

designsponge.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

designsponge.com SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Designsponge.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 Designsponge.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

designsponge.com

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