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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

vfxapprentice.com

VFX Apprentice | Training FX Artists for Games and Animation

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Learn the magic of visual FX for games and film. Master of the elements with professional 2D and 3D VFX courses teaching you the skills and tools used by major studios.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vfxapprentice.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 3.5 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

vfxapprentice.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value47.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.306

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vfxapprentice.com

52 ms

www.vfxapprentice.com

198 ms

styles.css

93 ms

css

77 ms

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91 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Vfxapprentice.com, 53% (24 requests) were made to Kajabi-storefronts-production.kajabi-cdn.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

10.7 MB

After Optimization

10.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vfxapprentice.com main page is 10.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 113.8 kB

  • Original 132.7 kB
  • After minification 125.8 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 113.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 10.2 MB
  • After minification 10.2 MB

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. VFX Apprentice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 274.5 kB
  • After minification 274.5 kB
  • After compression 259.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 687 B

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. Vfxapprentice.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (35%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VFX Apprentice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vfxapprentice.com

vfxapprentice.com

52 ms

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www.vfxapprentice.com

198 ms

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93 ms

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css

77 ms

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91 ms

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69 ms

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876 ms

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88 ms

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872 ms

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Accessibility Review

vfxapprentice.com accessibility score

85

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

vfxapprentice.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vfxapprentice.com SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Vfxapprentice.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 Vfxapprentice.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

vfxapprentice.com

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