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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

protolabs.com

Protolabs | Rapid Prototyping & On-demand Production Services

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

776 ms

Page Rendered

487 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Protolabs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Protolabs.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

protolabs.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,080 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.protolabs.com

345 ms

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138 ms

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216 ms

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138 ms

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303 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Protolabs.com, 30% (3 requests) were made to and 30% (3 requests) were made to Buildit.protolabs.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (345 ms) belongs to the original domain Protolabs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.4 kB (52%)

Content Size

390.9 kB

After Optimization

189.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Protolabs.com main page is 390.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 389.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 201.4 kB

  • Original 389.9 kB
  • After minification 387.9 kB
  • After compression 188.5 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 201.4 kB or 52% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 41 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Protolabs images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • AJAX
  • Images

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Protolabs. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.protolabs.com

www.protolabs.com

345 ms

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138 ms

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1pixel.gif

216 ms

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1pixel.gif

138 ms

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303 ms

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1pixel.svg

130 ms

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buildit.protolabs.com

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131 ms

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114 ms

Accessibility Review

protolabs.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

protolabs.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

protolabs.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

protolabs.com

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