Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

usertheory.net

User Theory, LLC | Marshall NC Web & Graphic Design - Web Accessibility and Social Media Management Company | Building Websites That Build Businesses

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usertheory.net page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

usertheory.net performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value26,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.425

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usertheory.net

121 ms

usertheory.net

1186 ms

icons.css

25 ms

flick.css

141 ms

usertheory.net

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Usertheory.net, 52% (62 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Usertheory.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

864.7 kB

After Optimization

626.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Usertheory.net main page is 864.7 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 445.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 190.0 kB

  • Original 228.0 kB
  • After minification 225.0 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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 190.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 445.4 kB
  • After minification 445.4 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. User Theory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 134.6 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 114.2 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 20.3 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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. Usertheory.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.5 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (70%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of User Theory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

usertheory.net accessibility score

87

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

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

usertheory.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

usertheory.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 Usertheory.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 Usertheory.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 User Theory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: