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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

epemag.com

www.epemag.com PE Practical Electronics hobby constructor magazine

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

366 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

206 ms

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About Website

Visit epemag.com now to see the best up-to-date E PE Mag content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about epemag.com

Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE) Magazine is both a print and web-delivered electronics and computing hobbyist magazine with free projects for beginners to expert engineers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epemag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 366 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epemag.com performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epemag.com

366 ms

epe-magazine.css

170 ms

ticker.js

164 ms

cookieconsent.latest.min.js

15 ms

addthis_widget.js

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Epemag.com, 13% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (779 ms) belongs to the original domain Epemag.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 328.9 kB (43%)

Content Size

770.5 kB

After Optimization

441.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Epemag.com main page is 770.5 kB. 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. Javascripts take 426.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 63.2 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 45.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 264.9 kB
  • After minification 260.3 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. E PE Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 267.3 kB

  • Original 426.8 kB
  • After minification 425.9 kB
  • After compression 159.5 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 267.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Epemag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (27%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of E PE Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

epemag.com

epemag.com

366 ms

epe-magazine.css

epe-magazine.css

170 ms

ticker.js

ticker.js

164 ms

cookieconsent.latest.min.js

cookieconsent.latest.min.js

15 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

12 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

5 ms

ca-pub-1011692046989180.js

ca-pub-1011692046989180.js

60 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

55 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

59 ms

branding.css

branding.css

34 ms

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

poweredby_FFFFFF.gif

51 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

141 ms

shadow.png

shadow.png

107 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

194 ms

navbar.jpg

navbar.jpg

194 ms

078-search.gif

078-search.gif

194 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

193 ms

subscribe.jpg

subscribe.jpg

199 ms

Full_Banner_EPE_468x90px_Free_software_2403142.jpg

Full_Banner_EPE_468x90px_Free_software_2403142.jpg

276 ms

CircuitEPE1.gif

CircuitEPE1.gif

779 ms

monitor-scrshot_sml.png

monitor-scrshot_sml.png

355 ms

cov0416.jpg

cov0416.jpg

480 ms

teach-in2016.gif

teach-in2016.gif

266 ms

0216-teach-in16-arduino.jpg

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373 ms

news-header.gif

news-header.gif

354 ms

stock-photo-6074374-schemat.jpg

stock-photo-6074374-schemat.jpg

368 ms

branding.css

branding.css

74 ms

ads

ads

234 ms

expansion_embed.js

expansion_embed.js

48 ms

osd.js

osd.js

64 ms

ads

ads

248 ms

ads

ads

226 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

60 ms

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

54 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

50 ms

shares.json

shares.json

19 ms

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43 ms

abg.js

abg.js

44 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

57 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

35 ms

s

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36 ms

x_button_blue2.svg

x_button_blue2.svg

38 ms

favicon

favicon

53 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

8 ms

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

3 ms

Accessibility Review

epemag.com accessibility score

45

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

epemag.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

epemag.com SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Epemag.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 Epemag.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

epemag.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of E PE Mag. 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: