Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

downtown.gr

Downtown.gr | Το καλύτερο Ελληνικό μηνιαίο περιοδικό, με ένα κλικ !

Page Load Speed

14.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

12.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

downtown.gr screenshot

About Website

Welcome to downtown.gr homepage info - get ready to check Downtown best content for Greece right away, or after learning these important things about downtown.gr

Downtown.gr ! Το καλύτερο Ελληνικό μηνιαίο περιοδικό από το 1996, τώρα και στο Ιντερνετ. Με ένα κλικ μπορείτε να ενημερωθείτε για όλα!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downtown.gr page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 13.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

downtown.gr performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downtown.gr

1145 ms

style.min.css

573 ms

styles.css

290 ms

frontend.css

290 ms

font-awesome.min.css

386 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (99 requests) were addressed to the original Downtown.gr, 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Vidads.gr. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.6 sec) relates to the external source Downtown.sportpolis.gr.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (33%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Downtown.gr main page is 8.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 245.1 kB

  • Original 279.9 kB
  • After minification 270.2 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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 245.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 521.5 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Downtown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 619.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 690.1 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 619.9 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 208.5 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. Downtown.gr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (64%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downtown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

downtown.gr accessibility score

74

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

downtown.gr best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

downtown.gr SEO score

85

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

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

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

    EL

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Downtown.gr can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Greek is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Downtown.gr 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 Downtown. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: