Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

storyofstuff.org

Homepage - Story of Stuff

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

455 ms

storyofstuff.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to storyofstuff.org homepage info - get ready to check Story Of Stuff best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about storyofstuff.org

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Storyofstuff.org page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 1.8 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

storyofstuff.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

storyofstuff.org

113 ms

323412689.js

113 ms

normalize.css

65 ms

style.css

103 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Storyofstuff.org, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (673 ms) belongs to the original domain Storyofstuff.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (16%)

Content Size

11.6 MB

After Optimization

9.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Storyofstuff.org main page is 11.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 65.5 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 28.3 kB, which is 36% 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 65.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 435.5 kB

  • Original 9.8 MB
  • After minification 9.4 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. Story Of Stuff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 907.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 980.8 kB
  • After compression 304.1 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 907.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 416.1 kB

  • Original 496.2 kB
  • After minification 493.6 kB
  • After compression 80.1 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. Storyofstuff.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 416.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (47%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Story Of Stuff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

storyofstuff.org accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

storyofstuff.org best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

storyofstuff.org SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Storyofstuff.org 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 Storyofstuff.org 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 Story Of Stuff. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: