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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thescroll.co page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thescroll.co performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.587

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thescroll.co

162 ms

bootstrap.min.css

273 ms

css2

332 ms

css2

399 ms

css2

413 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Thescroll.co, 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (481 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

253.0 kB

After Optimization

200.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thescroll.co main page is 253.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 201.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 6.1 kB, which is 20% 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 21.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 201.3 kB
  • After minification 169.9 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 Scroll needs image optimization as it can save up to 31.4 kB or 16% 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 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (81%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Scroll. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thescroll.co

thescroll.co

162 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

273 ms

css2

css2

332 ms

css2

css2

399 ms

css2

css2

413 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

119 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

333 ms

style.css

style.css

110 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

bootstrap-icons.css

264 ms

aos.css

aos.css

328 ms

js

js

353 ms

moment-with-locales.min.js

moment-with-locales.min.js

350 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

331 ms

modernizr-3.5.0.min.js

modernizr-3.5.0.min.js

104 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

219 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

217 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

217 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

215 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

215 ms

one-page-nav-min.js

one-page-nav-min.js

214 ms

jquery.counterup.min.js

jquery.counterup.min.js

220 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

254 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

220 ms

ajax-form.js

ajax-form.js

235 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

233 ms

jquery.scrollUp.min.js

jquery.scrollUp.min.js

232 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

244 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

296 ms

js

js

366 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

297 ms

main.js

main.js

292 ms

aos.js

aos.js

291 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

481 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

399 ms

logo3.png

logo3.png

368 ms

bg.png

bg.png

257 ms

hero2A.png

hero2A.png

238 ms

gen_204

gen_204

146 ms

232784858175735

232784858175735

173 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

Accessibility Review

thescroll.co accessibility score

95

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

thescroll.co best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thescroll.co SEO score

92

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

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 Thescroll.co 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 Thescroll.co 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

thescroll.co

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