Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thecult.us

:: THE CULT :: 2 0 2 3

Page Load Speed

21 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

20.7 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecult.us page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 20.9 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 was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

thecult.us performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecult.us

143 ms

thecult.us

271 ms

index.html

65 ms

index.html

74 ms

x30991r951506

20185 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Thecult.us, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Rs.gwallet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

421.2 kB

After Optimization

354.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Thecult.us main page is 421.2 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 365.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 676 B, which is 13% 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 3.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 365.3 kB
  • After minification 302.5 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. Obviously, THE CULT needs image optimization as it can save up to 62.8 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 192 B

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 475 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Thecult.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 475 B or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (32%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of THE CULT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thecult.us accessibility score

54

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

thecult.us 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thecult.us SEO score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thecult.us 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 Thecult.us 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 CULT. 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: