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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

nerdsofsteel.com

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Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

459 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nerdsofsteel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nerdsofsteel.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nerdsofsteel.com

172 ms

www.nerdsofsteel.com

374 ms

css

30 ms

global.css

131 ms

style.min.css

242 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Nerdsofsteel.com, 20% (17 requests) were made to Res-1.cdn.office.net and 7% (6 requests) were made to Live.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (992 ms) relates to the external source Onedrive.live.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 855.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nerdsofsteel.com main page is 3.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 70.6 kB

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 86.9 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 70.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 375.3 kB
  • After minification 373.0 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. Nerds Of Steel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 613.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 1.8 MB

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 613.4 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 169.1 kB

  • Original 302.7 kB
  • After minification 302.7 kB
  • After compression 133.6 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. Nerdsofsteel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 169.1 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (60%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nerds Of Steel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nerdsofsteel.com

nerdsofsteel.com

172 ms

www.nerdsofsteel.com

www.nerdsofsteel.com

374 ms

css

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30 ms

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131 ms

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242 ms

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198 ms

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197 ms

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189 ms

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190 ms

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208 ms

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46 ms

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257 ms

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260 ms

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322 ms

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263 ms

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278 ms

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310 ms

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51 ms

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380 ms

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386 ms

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451 ms

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400 ms

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404 ms

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419 ms

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Accessibility Review

nerdsofsteel.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

nerdsofsteel.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

nerdsofsteel.com SEO score

71

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

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 Nerdsofsteel.com 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 Nerdsofsteel.com 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Nerds Of Steel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: