Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

pen4pals.com

Language Exchange Social Network Pen4Pals | free learning Russian language with Russian native speakers.

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

356 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

597 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pen4pals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 356 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pen4pals.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.247

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pen4pals.com

356 ms

pen4pals.com

861 ms

context.js

1013 ms

css_mxbAh_X3v8UK0RKdfglfC46AdP0gE1FU1PD2QU8s3Lc.css

118 ms

font-awesome.min.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Pen4pals.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Yandex.ru and 5% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Yandex.ru.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

253.2 kB

After Optimization

174.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Pen4pals.com main page is 253.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 149.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 83.0 kB
  • After minification 78.9 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 66.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 211 B
  • After minification 208 B

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. Pen4 Pals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 149.8 kB
  • After minification 149.8 kB
  • After compression 137.9 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 377 B

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. Pen4pals.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (75%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pen4 Pals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pen4pals.com accessibility score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

pen4pals.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

pen4pals.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pen4pals.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 Pen4pals.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pen4 Pals. 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: