Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

pittchallenge.com

The Pitt Challenge

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

449 ms

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pittchallenge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pittchallenge.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pittchallenge.com

64 ms

main.css

23 ms

mlh-trust-badge-2024-yellow.svg

166 ms

jquery.min.js

79 ms

jquery.scrollex.min.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Pittchallenge.com, 12% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (271 ms) relates to the external source Cdnjs.cloudflare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 401.0 kB (45%)

Content Size

897.6 kB

After Optimization

496.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Pittchallenge.com main page is 897.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 816.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 34.0 kB
  • After minification 33.0 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 24.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 369.5 kB

  • Original 816.7 kB
  • After minification 447.2 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, Pitt Challenge needs image optimization as it can save up to 369.5 kB or 45% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 6.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (30%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pitt Challenge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pittchallenge.com accessibility score

88

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

pittchallenge.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pittchallenge.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pittchallenge.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 Pittchallenge.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 data is detected on the main page of Pitt Challenge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: