Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

recipelion.com

RecipeLion - Everyday food recipes for the home chef.

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

364 ms

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About Website

Visit recipelion.com now to see the best up-to-date Recipe Lion content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about recipelion.com

RecipeLion offers 1000s of delicious everyday food recipes that are perfect for the home chef. Our test kitchen chef Addie Gundry cooks up easy dinner recipes, desserts, and make-ahead meals that anyo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recipelion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

recipelion.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value50.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value26,780 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.157

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value91.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

recipelion.com

24 ms

www.recipelion.com

128 ms

analytics.js

29 ms

jquery.min.js

46 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Recipelion.com, 26% (37 requests) were made to Storage.googleapis.com and 10% (14 requests) were made to Images.intellitxt.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (349 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Recipelion.com main page is 3.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 287.2 kB

  • Original 358.7 kB
  • After minification 314.3 kB
  • After compression 71.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 44.4 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 287.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB

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. Recipe Lion images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 423.7 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 1.2 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 261.5 kB

  • Original 316.6 kB
  • After minification 306.6 kB
  • After compression 55.1 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. Recipelion.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 87 (64%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recipe Lion. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

recipelion.com accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

recipelion.com SEO score

91

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

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 Recipelion.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 Recipelion.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 Recipe Lion. 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: