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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

thetab.com

The Tab

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

445 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetab.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thetab.com

190 ms

fillet-css.css

84 ms

bootstrap.min.css

244 ms

main.min.css

167 ms

css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Thetab.com, 14% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (317 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.2 kB (50%)

Content Size

834.4 kB

After Optimization

417.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thetab.com main page is 834.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 336.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 41.4 kB

  • Original 50.9 kB
  • After minification 46.1 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 41.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 246.5 kB
  • After minification 242.2 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. The Tab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 205.7 kB

  • Original 336.2 kB
  • After minification 335.0 kB
  • After compression 130.5 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 205.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 165.9 kB

  • Original 200.8 kB
  • After minification 199.3 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Thetab.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (56%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

16

  • 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 Tab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thetab.com

thetab.com

190 ms

fillet-css.css

fillet-css.css

84 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

244 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

167 ms

css

css

68 ms

style.css

style.css

164 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

169 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

286 ms

photon.js

photon.js

172 ms

fillet.js

fillet.js

250 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

60 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

249 ms

jquery.lazyloadxt.min.js

jquery.lazyloadxt.min.js

250 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

259 ms

e-201609.js

e-201609.js

4 ms

style.css

style.css

161 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

16 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

69 ms

quant.js

quant.js

16 ms

thetab-logo-gold.png

thetab-logo-gold.png

210 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

135 ms

count.js

count.js

79 ms

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147 ms

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146 ms

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148 ms

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234 ms

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227 ms

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4cKlrioa77J2iqTqBgkRWg.ttf

215 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

222 ms

pubads_impl_81.js

pubads_impl_81.js

136 ms

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90 ms

all.js

all.js

317 ms

thetab-placeholder.png

thetab-placeholder.png

128 ms

g.gif

g.gif

120 ms

lawyers.jpg

lawyers.jpg

117 ms

iPhones.jpg

iPhones.jpg

117 ms

sunfeat.jpg

sunfeat.jpg

116 ms

collect

collect

186 ms

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Screen-Shot-2016-03-01-at-14.42.36.png

103 ms

featfeatfeat.jpg

featfeatfeat.jpg

104 ms

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101 ms

sadiq1.jpg

sadiq1.jpg

108 ms

container.html

container.html

85 ms

Accessibility Review

thetab.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thetab.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thetab.com SEO score

96

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 Thetab.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 Thetab.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

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