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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

digitalblue.com

Digital Blue, Blueprint Plotters Printing Chicago Area

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

696 ms

Resources Loaded

802 ms

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digitalblue.com page load time and found that the first response time was 696 ms and then it took 3.1 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

digitalblue.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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696 ms

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240 ms

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240 ms

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238 ms

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240 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Digitalblue.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (696 ms) belongs to the original domain Digitalblue.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

30.4 kB

After Optimization

19.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Digitalblue.com main page is 30.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 21.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 7.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 16.6 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, Digital Blue needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Blue. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

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696 ms

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240 ms

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240 ms

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238 ms

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240 ms

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button_send_job.gif

295 ms

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250 ms

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281 ms

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72 ms

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68 ms

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72 ms

Accessibility Review

digitalblue.com accessibility score

77

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

digitalblue.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

digitalblue.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Digital Blue. 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: