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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

45things.com

45 Things by Anita Bruzzese

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

110 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

104 ms

45things.com screenshot

About Website

Visit 45things.com now to see the best up-to-date 45 Things content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about 45things.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed 45things.com page load time and found that the first response time was 110 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

45things.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

45things.com

110 ms

www.45things.com

1331 ms

d1.css

31 ms

urchin.js

20 ms

header.gif

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original 45things.com, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Badges.alltop.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain 45things.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

77.1 kB

After Optimization

64.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 45things.com main page is 77.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 60.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 4.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 60.3 kB
  • After minification 54.8 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. 45 Things images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 919 B

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. 45things.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 45 Things. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

45things.com

45things.com

110 ms

www.45things.com

www.45things.com

1331 ms

d1.css

d1.css

31 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

20 ms

header.gif

header.gif

55 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

f_alltop_125x125.jpg

f_alltop_125x125.jpg

158 ms

badge-small.jpg

badge-small.jpg

249 ms

linkbar.jpg

linkbar.jpg

31 ms

anita1.jpg

anita1.jpg

48 ms

banner-read-anitas-blog.gif

banner-read-anitas-blog.gif

55 ms

feed-icon-14x14.png

feed-icon-14x14.png

56 ms

45thingscover3_150.png

45thingscover3_150.png

56 ms

sobcon08_logo189x60.jpg

sobcon08_logo189x60.jpg

84 ms

Accessibility Review

45things.com accessibility score

52

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.

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

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

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

45things.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

45things.com SEO score

62

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 45things.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 45things.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

45things.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 45 Things. 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: