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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ideastations.org

Page Load Speed

935 ms in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

549 ms

Page Rendered

325 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ideastations.org page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 874 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ideastations.org performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,070 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.465

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ideastations.org

61 ms

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Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Ideastations.org, 27% (21 requests) were made to Cdn.ideastations.org.s3.amazonaws.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 497.2 kB (58%)

Content Size

851.6 kB

After Optimization

354.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ideastations.org main page is 851.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 319.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 74.4 kB

  • Original 90.8 kB
  • After minification 85.1 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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 74.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 227.7 kB
  • After minification 202.2 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, Ideastations needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 223.2 kB

  • Original 319.3 kB
  • After minification 216.3 kB
  • After compression 96.1 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 223.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 174.3 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 206.0 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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. Ideastations.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 174.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (48%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ideastations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ideastations.org accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ideastations.org 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ideastations.org SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Ideastations.org 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 Ideastations.org 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

ideastations.org

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