Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

rajeevbalasubramanyam.com

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rajeevbalasubramanyam.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rajeevbalasubramanyam.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rajeevbalasubramanyam.com

202 ms

css

31 ms

style.css

72 ms

style.min.css

152 ms

styles.css

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Rajeevbalasubramanyam.com, 37% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (252 ms) belongs to the original domain Rajeevbalasubramanyam.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 61.3 kB (16%)

Content Size

379.2 kB

After Optimization

317.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Rajeevbalasubramanyam.com main page is 379.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 231.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 15.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 231.6 kB
  • After minification 220.1 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. Rajeev Balasubramanyam images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 78.8 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 32.2 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. Rajeevbalasubramanyam.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (56%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rajeev Balasubramanyam. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rajeevbalasubramanyam.com 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

[role] values are not valid

Best Practices

rajeevbalasubramanyam.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

SEO Factors

rajeevbalasubramanyam.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Rajeevbalasubramanyam.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 Rajeevbalasubramanyam.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 Rajeev Balasubramanyam. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: