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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

techmeme.com

Techmeme

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

729 ms

Page Rendered

334 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techmeme.com page load time and found that the first response time was 264 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

techmeme.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

techmeme.com

264 ms

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104 ms

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148 ms

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100 ms

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102 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Techmeme.com, 7% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (442 ms) belongs to the original domain Techmeme.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.5 kB (44%)

Content Size

577.4 kB

After Optimization

323.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Techmeme.com main page is 577.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 263.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 129.4 kB

  • Original 165.6 kB
  • After minification 165.6 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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 129.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 263.8 kB
  • After minification 241.0 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. Techmeme images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 90.5 kB

  • Original 134.0 kB
  • After minification 111.7 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 90.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 11.6 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Techmeme.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (24%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Techmeme. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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264 ms

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104 ms

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148 ms

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100 ms

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102 ms

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102 ms

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171 ms

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158 ms

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155 ms

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124 ms

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102 ms

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103 ms

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142 ms

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175 ms

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181 ms

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180 ms

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175 ms

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178 ms

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208 ms

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242 ms

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244 ms

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244 ms

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245 ms

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246 ms

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278 ms

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395 ms

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396 ms

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429 ms

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10 ms

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442 ms

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7 ms

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25 ms

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340 ms

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378 ms

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21 ms

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17 ms

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98 ms

Accessibility Review

techmeme.com accessibility score

57

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.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

techmeme.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

SEO Factors

techmeme.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Techmeme.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Techmeme.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

techmeme.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Techmeme. 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: