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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

store.thisamericanlife.org

This American Life

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

337 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

93 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Store.thisamericanlife.org page load time and found that the first response time was 337 ms and then it took 1.6 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

store.thisamericanlife.org performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Default.asp

337 ms

jquery-ui.css

32 ms

default.css

57 ms

25920181101090737.css

332 ms

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Store.thisamericanlife.org, 13% (5 requests) were made to D21ivvgspl06jm.cloudfront.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (337 ms) belongs to the original domain Store.thisamericanlife.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.6 kB (57%)

Content Size

760.6 kB

After Optimization

329.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Store.thisamericanlife.org main page is 760.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 401.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 110.8 kB
  • After minification 93.7 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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 17.1 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 82.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 84.0 kB
  • After minification 76.1 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. Store This American Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 163.9 kB
  • After minification 163.9 kB
  • After compression 153.3 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 331.1 kB

  • Original 401.9 kB
  • After minification 401.2 kB
  • After compression 70.8 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. Store.thisamericanlife.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 331.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (54%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Store This American Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Default.asp

Default.asp

337 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

32 ms

default.css

default.css

57 ms

25920181101090737.css

25920181101090737.css

332 ms

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

31 ms

jquery-migrate-merged.js

jquery-migrate-merged.js

117 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

49 ms

volusion.js

volusion.js

114 ms

content.css

content.css

148 ms

paypal-rest-default-buttons.js

paypal-rest-default-buttons.js

112 ms

soft_add.css

soft_add.css

185 ms

javascripts.js

javascripts.js

159 ms

f2c8c7e93216e073_complete.js

f2c8c7e93216e073_complete.js

48 ms

template.css

template.css

157 ms

theme-icons-base.css

theme-icons-base.css

39 ms

design-toolkit.min.js

design-toolkit.min.js

156 ms

vnav.css

vnav.css

178 ms

vnav.js

vnav.js

193 ms

template.min.js

template.min.js

251 ms

class-name-watcher.js

class-name-watcher.js

195 ms

css

css

32 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

34 ms

ionicons.min.css

ionicons.min.css

70 ms

header_bg.gif

header_bg.gif

49 ms

LOGO-SHIRT-1.jpg

LOGO-SHIRT-1.jpg

85 ms

TAL-TOREY-SHIRT-1.jpg

TAL-TOREY-SHIRT-1.jpg

158 ms

TAL-TUMBLR-NAVY-1.jpg

TAL-TUMBLR-NAVY-1.jpg

59 ms

LOGO-SWEATSHIRT-1.jpg

LOGO-SWEATSHIRT-1.jpg

83 ms

TAL-LOGO-TOTE-1.jpg

TAL-LOGO-TOTE-1.jpg

61 ms

TAL-LOGO-SHIRT-1.jpg

TAL-LOGO-SHIRT-1.jpg

159 ms

facebook-dark.svg

facebook-dark.svg

10 ms

twitter-dark.svg

twitter-dark.svg

19 ms

instagram-dark.svg

instagram-dark.svg

41 ms

rss-dark.svg

rss-dark.svg

43 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

110 ms

HhyJU5sn9vOmLxNkIwRSjTVNWLEJN7Ml2xMC.woff

HhyJU5sn9vOmLxNkIwRSjTVNWLEJN7Ml2xMC.woff

110 ms

ajax_receiver.asp

ajax_receiver.asp

201 ms

ConfigurationSettingProvider.ashx

ConfigurationSettingProvider.ashx

34 ms

svgdefs.svg

svgdefs.svg

69 ms

ionicons.ttf

ionicons.ttf

78 ms

Accessibility Review

store.thisamericanlife.org accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

store.thisamericanlife.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

store.thisamericanlife.org SEO score

75

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Store.thisamericanlife.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 Store.thisamericanlife.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

store.thisamericanlife.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Store This American Life. 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: