Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

thetechchap.com

The Tech Chap | Technology News, Reviews & Analysis.

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

854 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

660 ms

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About Website

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The Tech Chap provides in-depth and trustworthy reviews of the latest smartphones, tablets and consumer tech. It's also home of the Tea & Tech show!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetechchap.com page load time and found that the first response time was 854 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetechchap.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thetechchap.com

854 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

184 ms

style.min.css

306 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

209 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

206 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Thetechchap.com, 27% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.5 kB (17%)

Content Size

792.1 kB

After Optimization

657.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Thetechchap.com main page is 792.1 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. Images take 510.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 150.1 kB
  • After minification 147.7 kB
  • After compression 49.6 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. 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 100.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 510.6 kB
  • After minification 505.5 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. The Tech Chap images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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 9.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 66.2 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 47.1 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. Thetechchap.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.1 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (78%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Tech Chap. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thetechchap.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thetechchap.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

thetechchap.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thetechchap.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 Thetechchap.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 Tech Chap. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: