Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

technetcast.ddj.com

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Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Technetcast.ddj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

technetcast.ddj.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,140 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

technetcast.ddj.com

142 ms

drdobbs.com

134 ms

www.drdobbs.com

1209 ms

detect.js

98 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Technetcast.ddj.com, 25% (36 requests) were made to Twimgs.com and 8% (11 requests) were made to Ubmtechdfp624194964293.s.moatpixel.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Drdobbs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

815.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Technetcast.ddj.com main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 73.6 kB

  • Original 99.8 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 73.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 60.2 kB

  • Original 247.0 kB
  • After minification 186.8 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, Technetcast Ddj needs image optimization as it can save up to 60.2 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 581.7 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 1.1 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 103.6 kB

  • Original 124.7 kB
  • After minification 92.4 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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. Technetcast.ddj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (74%)

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Technetcast Ddj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

technetcast.ddj.com accessibility score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

SEO Factors

technetcast.ddj.com SEO score

79

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

    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 Technetcast.ddj.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 Technetcast.ddj.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

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