Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

retromechanix.com

Retromechanix | creating a digital archive of secret aerospace history | Patreon

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Retromechanix.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

retromechanix.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

retromechanix.com

2924 ms

retromechanix

770 ms

sdk.js

70 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

74 ms

gtm.js

151 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Retromechanix.com, 76% (50 requests) were made to C13.patreon.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Patreon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Retromechanix.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Retromechanix.com main page is 2.9 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 166.8 kB

  • Original 205.1 kB
  • After minification 204.9 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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 166.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 236.0 kB
  • After minification 236.0 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. Retromechanix images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 2.4 MB

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (94%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Retromechanix. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

retromechanix.com accessibility score

77

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

retromechanix.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

retromechanix.com SEO score

93

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

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