Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

spikehq.com

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Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

951 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spikehq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 951 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spikehq.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,960 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.156

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spike.co.nz

951 ms

style.min.css

904 ms

style.min.css

682 ms

screen.min.css

754 ms

wpb_wmca_style.css

707 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Spikehq.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) relates to the external source Spike.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.3 kB (21%)

Content Size

405.1 kB

After Optimization

318.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Spikehq.com main page is 405.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 279.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 101.0 kB
  • After minification 100.9 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 82.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 279.7 kB
  • After minification 275.9 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. Spikehq images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 466 B

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 25 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Spikehq.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (73%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spikehq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

spikehq.com accessibility score

75

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

spikehq.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

spikehq.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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Spikehq.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Spikehq.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 Spikehq. 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: