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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

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Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

553 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iconbar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iconbar.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iconbar.com

1504 ms

style.css

95 ms

showhide.js

186 ms

shadow3.gif

95 ms

purplebar.jpg

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Iconbar.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Iconbar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.4 kB (52%)

Content Size

70.3 kB

After Optimization

33.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iconbar.com main page is 70.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 37.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 37.2 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 26.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 21.1 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, Icon Bar needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 333 B

  • Original 543 B
  • After minification 491 B
  • After compression 210 B

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 333 B or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Iconbar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

iconbar.com

iconbar.com

1504 ms

style.css

style.css

95 ms

showhide.js

showhide.js

186 ms

shadow3.gif

shadow3.gif

95 ms

purplebar.jpg

purplebar.jpg

103 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

183 ms

videogames.jpg

videogames.jpg

276 ms

rss-feed.gif

rss-feed.gif

193 ms

mediumshine.gif

mediumshine.gif

190 ms

strip.gif

strip.gif

196 ms

showdata.gif

showdata.gif

201 ms

rss_feed.gif

rss_feed.gif

94 ms

print.css

print.css

93 ms

Accessibility Review

iconbar.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

iconbar.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

iconbar.com SEO score

91

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iconbar.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 Iconbar.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Icon Bar. 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: