Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hide.me

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Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

674 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hide.me page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hide.me performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hide.me

44 ms

hide.me

126 ms

331 ms

web.28e6211ee962b5c54594.css

299 ms

windows_grey.svg

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hide.me and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (469 ms) belongs to the original domain Hide.me.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.0 kB (36%)

Content Size

502.9 kB

After Optimization

322.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Hide.me main page is 502.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 257.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 178.9 kB

  • Original 257.0 kB
  • After minification 235.8 kB
  • After compression 78.1 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 178.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 105.5 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. Hide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 656 B

  • Original 43.7 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 395 B

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 96.8 kB
  • After compression 96.4 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. Hide.me has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (17%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

34

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

Accessibility Review

hide.me accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

hide.me best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

hide.me SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hide.me can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Hide.me 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 Hide. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: