Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

firststep.net

FirstStep Internet Services

Page Load Speed

801 ms in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

543 ms

Page Rendered

115 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firststep.net page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 658 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firststep.net performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firststep.net

143 ms

main.css

66 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

62 ms

lightbox.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Firststep.net, 27% (4 requests) were made to Support.poundllc.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (286 ms) relates to the external source Support.poundllc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

171.7 kB

After Optimization

150.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Firststep.net main page is 171.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 156.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.0 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 156.9 kB
  • After minification 146.7 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. First Step images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Firststep.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Step. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

firststep.net accessibility score

81

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

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

Best Practices

firststep.net best practices score

58

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

firststep.net SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Firststep.net 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 Firststep.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of First Step. 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: