Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

theplab.net

Getting Pregnant, Pregnancy, Baby & Toddler Tips, Information & Advice

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

9.2 sec

Page Rendered

185 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theplab.net page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theplab.net performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theplab.net

2092 ms

822635ce1183883abc4ce63c1a83c347.min.css

342 ms

tabs-lg-min.min.css

250 ms

min-shbp.min.css

250 ms

min-shbp-header-legacy.min.css

250 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Theplab.net, 1% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Cdn.ampproject.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Theplab.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 203.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

798.6 kB

After Optimization

595.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Theplab.net main page is 798.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 365.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 79.9 kB

  • Original 94.4 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 79.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 162.6 kB
  • After minification 162.6 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. Theplab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 121.7 kB

  • Original 365.3 kB
  • After minification 365.3 kB
  • After compression 243.6 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 121.7 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 176.2 kB
  • After minification 176.2 kB
  • After compression 174.4 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. Theplab.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (85%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theplab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 64 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theplab.net accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

theplab.net 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theplab.net SEO score

99

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

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 Theplab.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 Theplab.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

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