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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

urbansketching.com

Urban Sketching - Home

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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About Website

Welcome to urbansketching.com homepage info - get ready to check Urban Sketching best content right away, or after learning these important things about urbansketching.com

Urban Sketching for the love of making art on location. Drawing, painting, sketching en plein air. Create travel journals and fill sketchbooks.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Urbansketching.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 1.4 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

urbansketching.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

urbansketching.com

190 ms

www.urbansketching.com

203 ms

www.urbansketching.com

187 ms

sites.css

19 ms

fancybox.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Urbansketching.com, 44% (18 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (216 ms) belongs to the original domain Urbansketching.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Urbansketching.com main page is 1.5 MB. 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. Images take 836.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 82.1 kB

  • Original 100.7 kB
  • After minification 99.9 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 82.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 836.9 kB
  • After minification 820.7 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. Urban Sketching images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 27.9 kB

  • Original 495.3 kB
  • After minification 495.3 kB
  • After compression 467.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 176 B

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 35.9 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Urbansketching.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (38%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Urban Sketching. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

urbansketching.com

urbansketching.com

190 ms

www.urbansketching.com

www.urbansketching.com

203 ms

www.urbansketching.com

www.urbansketching.com

187 ms

sites.css

sites.css

19 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

32 ms

main_style.css

main_style.css

119 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

32 ms

templateArtifacts.js

templateArtifacts.js

117 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

31 ms

stl.js

stl.js

30 ms

main.js

main.js

32 ms

commerce-core.js

commerce-core.js

32 ms

main-commerce-browse.js

main-commerce-browse.js

33 ms

slideshow-jq.js

slideshow-jq.js

34 ms

footerSignup.js

footerSignup.js

33 ms

main-customer-accounts-site.js

main-customer-accounts-site.js

36 ms

footer-toast-published-image-1.png

footer-toast-published-image-1.png

188 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

121 ms

search-wrap-bg.jpg

search-wrap-bg.jpg

110 ms

input-bg.png

input-bg.png

203 ms

submit-bg.png

submit-bg.png

183 ms

main-bg.png

main-bg.png

204 ms

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105 ms

rounded_corners.png

rounded_corners.png

212 ms

nav-top.png

nav-top.png

216 ms

3287402.jpg

3287402.jpg

157 ms

7264351_orig.png

7264351_orig.png

199 ms

108872.jpg

108872.jpg

214 ms

ga.js

ga.js

96 ms

snowday262.js

snowday262.js

60 ms

free-footer-v3.css

free-footer-v3.css

24 ms

214706_orig.jpg

214706_orig.jpg

169 ms

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181 ms

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193 ms

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178 ms

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193 ms

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4357360_orig.jpg

189 ms

control_icons.gif

control_icons.gif

6 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

10 ms

logotype.svg

logotype.svg

26 ms

sqmarket-medium.woff

sqmarket-medium.woff

4 ms

Accessibility Review

urbansketching.com accessibility score

74

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.

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

Best Practices

urbansketching.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

urbansketching.com SEO score

85

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Urbansketching.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 Urbansketching.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 Urban Sketching. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: