Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

theblondesalad.com

Homepage - The Blonde Salad

Page Load Speed

110.5 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

59.7 sec

Page Rendered

50.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theblondesalad.com page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 110.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

theblondesalad.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theblondesalad.com

275 ms

www.theblondesalad.com

1185 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

1696 ms

style.min.css

245 ms

css

1767 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Theblondesalad.com, 58% (74 requests) were made to D1wl13ohcvociy.cloudfront.net and 8% (10 requests) were made to Tbs.m1-stage-1.dnsdianacorp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (21.5 sec) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (19%)

Content Size

13.1 MB

After Optimization

10.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Theblondesalad.com main page is 13.1 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 10.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 194.3 kB

  • Original 216.3 kB
  • After minification 167.9 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 48.4 kB, which is 22% 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 194.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 214.0 kB

  • Original 10.0 MB
  • After minification 9.8 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 Blonde Salad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 739.2 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 1.5 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 497.7 kB

  • Original 602.4 kB
  • After minification 577.0 kB
  • After compression 104.7 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. Theblondesalad.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 497.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (22%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

89

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Blonde Salad. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theblondesalad.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

SEO Factors

theblondesalad.com SEO score

92

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

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theblondesalad.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Theblondesalad.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Blonde Salad. 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: