Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

visualcomplexity.com

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visualcomplexity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 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

visualcomplexity.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value28,930 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visualcomplexity.com

207 ms

vc

197 ms

567 ms

cfform.js

256 ms

masks.js

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (179 requests) were addressed to the original Visualcomplexity.com, 3% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 2% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (684 ms) belongs to the original domain Visualcomplexity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 782.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

7.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Visualcomplexity.com main page is 8.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 131.5 kB
  • After minification 127.3 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 117.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 623.7 kB

  • Original 7.9 MB
  • After minification 7.3 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. Visual Complex Ity images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 61.6 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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 20.0 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Visualcomplexity.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (12%)

Requests Now

198

After Optimization

174

The browser has sent 198 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visual Complex Ity. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

visualcomplexity.com accessibility score

53

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

visualcomplexity.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

visualcomplexity.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Visualcomplexity.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Visualcomplexity.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Visual Complex Ity. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: