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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

thebalancingact.com

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Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

799 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebalancingact.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebalancingact.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thebalancingact.com

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Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (131 requests) were addressed to the original Thebalancingact.com, 6% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thebalancingact.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (34%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebalancingact.com main page is 4.5 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 142.6 kB

  • Original 167.2 kB
  • After minification 139.2 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 28.0 kB, which is 17% 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 142.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. The Balancing Act images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 601.7 kB

  • Original 865.7 kB
  • After minification 797.0 kB
  • After compression 263.9 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 601.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 673.8 kB

  • Original 773.8 kB
  • After minification 651.4 kB
  • After compression 100.0 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. Thebalancingact.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 673.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (48%)

Requests Now

173

After Optimization

90

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 173 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Balancing Act. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thebalancingact.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

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.

Best Practices

thebalancingact.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thebalancingact.com SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thebalancingact.com 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 Thebalancingact.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

thebalancingact.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Balancing Act. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: