Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thechanzo.com

The Chanzo - Looking at the world from ground up

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thechanzo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thechanzo.com performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thechanzo.com

93 ms

thechanzo.com

2344 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

theme.min.css

29 ms

header-footer.min.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Thechanzo.com, 20% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thechanzo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 438.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Thechanzo.com main page is 3.5 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. 75% 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 315.4 kB

  • Original 351.4 kB
  • After minification 336.8 kB
  • After compression 36.0 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. 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 315.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 100.6 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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 Chanzo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 171.0 kB
  • After minification 171.0 kB
  • After compression 156.7 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 54.6 kB
  • After minification 54.3 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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. Thechanzo.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (67%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Chanzo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thechanzo.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

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

thechanzo.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thechanzo.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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