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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thebinarytimes.net

The Binary Times Audiocast | GNU/Linux/free software/hardware/culture

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

678 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

Visit thebinarytimes.net now to see the best up-to-date The Binary Times content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thebinarytimes.net

A linux audiocast from two Irish chaps who discuss free software, hardware and culture. Enjoy the content, leave some feedback via email.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebinarytimes.net page load time and found that the first response time was 678 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebinarytimes.net performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebinarytimes.net

678 ms

style.css

220 ms

BT_PodcastWebBanner.png

301 ms

ThePodcastersS08E09.png

457 ms

backtotop.png

206 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Thebinarytimes.net, 5% (1 request) were made to I.creativecommons.org and 5% (1 request) were made to Licensebuttons.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (678 ms) belongs to the original domain Thebinarytimes.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

629.5 kB

After Optimization

556.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebinarytimes.net main page is 629.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 541.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 82.5 kB
  • After minification 77.4 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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 57.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 541.3 kB
  • After minification 530.7 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. The Binary Times images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Thebinarytimes.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Binary Times. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thebinarytimes.net

thebinarytimes.net

678 ms

style.css

style.css

220 ms

BT_PodcastWebBanner.png

BT_PodcastWebBanner.png

301 ms

ThePodcastersS08E09.png

ThePodcastersS08E09.png

457 ms

backtotop.png

backtotop.png

206 ms

ThePodcastersS08E08.png

ThePodcastersS08E08.png

449 ms

ThePodcastersS08E07.png

ThePodcastersS08E07.png

467 ms

ThePodcastersS08E06.png

ThePodcastersS08E06.png

450 ms

ThePodcastersS08E05.png

ThePodcastersS08E05.png

307 ms

ThePodcastersS08E04.png

ThePodcastersS08E04.png

335 ms

ThePodcastersS08E03.png

ThePodcastersS08E03.png

457 ms

lightgrey.png

lightgrey.png

345 ms

darkgrey.png

darkgrey.png

354 ms

quotes.png

quotes.png

387 ms

88x31.png

88x31.png

44 ms

ThePodcastersS08E02.png

ThePodcastersS08E02.png

443 ms

ThePodcastersS08E01.png

ThePodcastersS08E01.png

463 ms

tshirt2.png

tshirt2.png

410 ms

rssbw-ogg.png

rssbw-ogg.png

397 ms

rssbw-mp3.png

rssbw-mp3.png

427 ms

PiPic.jpg

PiPic.jpg

612 ms

88x31.png

88x31.png

30 ms

Accessibility Review

thebinarytimes.net accessibility score

94

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.

Best Practices

thebinarytimes.net best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

thebinarytimes.net SEO score

69

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

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 Thebinarytimes.net 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 Thebinarytimes.net 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

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