Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% 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

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Start.is page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

start.is performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

start.is

1379 ms

css

25 ms

super-menu.css

622 ms

style.css

741 ms

superfish.css

639 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Start.is, 22% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 10% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Start.is.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 563.1 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

456.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Start.is 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 432.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 62.5 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 10.8 kB, which is 15% 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 62.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 338.8 kB
  • After minification 304.1 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. Start images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 316.6 kB

  • Original 432.8 kB
  • After minification 394.8 kB
  • After compression 116.2 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 316.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 149.0 kB

  • Original 174.5 kB
  • After minification 126.1 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Start.is needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 149.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (56%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Start. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

start.is accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

start.is 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

SEO Factors

start.is SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    IS

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Start.is can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Icelandic language. Our system also found out that Start.is 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 Start. 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: