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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

scimoms.com

SciMoms – Resolving parenting wars one fact at a time

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

881 ms

Page Rendered

213 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scimoms.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 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

scimoms.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scimoms.com

32 ms

scimoms.wordpress.com

297 ms

webfont.js

111 ms

106 ms

style.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Scimoms.com, 20% (8 requests) were made to S2.wp.com and 17% (7 requests) were made to Scimoms.files.wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (330 ms) relates to the external source Scimoms.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

857.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scimoms.com main page is 1.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 700.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 120.4 kB

  • Original 173.5 kB
  • After minification 171.7 kB
  • After compression 53.1 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 120.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 700.0 kB
  • After minification 656.1 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. Sci Moms images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 569 B

  • Original 131.2 kB
  • After minification 131.2 kB
  • After compression 130.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 150 B

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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. Scimoms.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sci Moms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

scimoms.com

scimoms.com

32 ms

scimoms.wordpress.com

scimoms.wordpress.com

297 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

111 ms

106 ms

style.css

style.css

112 ms

109 ms

109 ms

120 ms

css

css

143 ms

122 ms

123 ms

139 ms

123 ms

hovercards.min.js

hovercards.min.js

138 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

116 ms

smart.js

smart.js

140 ms

120 ms

w.js

w.js

138 ms

bilmur.min.js

bilmur.min.js

67 ms

css

css

41 ms

conf

conf

115 ms

importmap-polyfill.min.js

importmap-polyfill.min.js

1 ms

ga.js

ga.js

91 ms

scimoms-horizlogo.png

scimoms-horizlogo.png

128 ms

g.gif

g.gif

91 ms

100 ms

google-011.png

google-011.png

100 ms

blog.png

blog.png

301 ms

pubs-200x300.png

pubs-200x300.png

174 ms

projects.png

projects.png

325 ms

who.png

who.png

330 ms

cropped-wordpress_logo1.png

cropped-wordpress_logo1.png

203 ms

wpcom-mark.svg

wpcom-mark.svg

49 ms

g.gif

g.gif

84 ms

g.gif

g.gif

85 ms

Genericons.svg

Genericons.svg

18 ms

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8AAnjaY2BgYGQAgosrjpwF0ZcUq9bCaABTzgdAAAA=

1 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

28 ms

ata.js

ata.js

13 ms

actionbar.css

actionbar.css

2 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

12 ms

Accessibility Review

scimoms.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

scimoms.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

scimoms.com SEO score

90

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 Scimoms.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 Scimoms.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

scimoms.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Sci Moms. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: