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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

visualthesaurus.com

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

Page Load Speed

23.5 sec in total

First Response

610 ms

Resources Loaded

11.8 sec

Page Rendered

11.1 sec

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About Website

Visit visualthesaurus.com now to see the best up-to-date Visual Thesaurus content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about visualthesaurus.com

An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. It's a tool for people who think visually. The most fun you've ever had with words. The Visual The...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visualthesaurus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 610 ms and then it took 22.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visualthesaurus.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.visualthesaurus.com

610 ms

base-1f7tao3.css

1717 ms

story-deejbd.css

1701 ms

home-glhppi.css

1702 ms

module-jh3lsx.js

1735 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Visualthesaurus.com, 89% (55 requests) were made to D1r3b8xpnlyvar.cloudfront.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source D1r3b8xpnlyvar.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 410.8 kB (55%)

Content Size

749.1 kB

After Optimization

338.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visualthesaurus.com main page is 749.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 415.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 64.8 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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 54.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 131.8 kB
  • After minification 111.7 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. Obviously, Visual Thesaurus needs image optimization as it can save up to 20.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 229.3 kB

  • Original 415.5 kB
  • After minification 407.7 kB
  • After compression 186.3 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 229.3 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 107.3 kB

  • Original 133.6 kB
  • After minification 108.2 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. Visualthesaurus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 107.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (79%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visual Thesaurus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.visualthesaurus.com

www.visualthesaurus.com

610 ms

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1717 ms

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1701 ms

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1702 ms

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1735 ms

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84 ms

Accessibility Review

visualthesaurus.com accessibility score

45

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

visualthesaurus.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

visualthesaurus.com SEO score

54

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Visualthesaurus.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 Visualthesaurus.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

visualthesaurus.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Visual Thesaurus. 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: