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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

crunchboard.com

Tech, Startup and Engineering Jobs - Crunchboard Job Board

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

918 ms

Page Rendered

122 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Crunchboard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 221 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

crunchboard.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,460 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

crunchboard.com

221 ms

style.css

76 ms

bootstrap.min.css

225 ms

crunch-board.css

158 ms

crunchboard-custom.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Crunchboard.com, 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (238 ms) belongs to the original domain Crunchboard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 440.8 kB (70%)

Content Size

628.6 kB

After Optimization

187.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Crunchboard.com main page is 628.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 387.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 34.6 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 25.8 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.4 kB, which is 36% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 34.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 36.7 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. Crunchboard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 269.0 kB

  • Original 387.7 kB
  • After minification 383.5 kB
  • After compression 118.7 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 269.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 136.0 kB

  • Original 162.8 kB
  • After minification 150.5 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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. Crunchboard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (75%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Crunchboard. 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

crunchboard.com

crunchboard.com

221 ms

style.css

style.css

76 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

225 ms

crunch-board.css

crunch-board.css

158 ms

crunchboard-custom.css

crunchboard-custom.css

152 ms

bootstrap3-wysihtml5.min.css

bootstrap3-wysihtml5.min.css

156 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

8 ms

ie-emulation-modes-warning.js

ie-emulation-modes-warning.js

155 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

238 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

237 ms

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

236 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

6 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

54 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

75 ms

CrunchBoard.png

CrunchBoard.png

151 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

17 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

150 ms

TitilliumWeb-Light.ttf

TitilliumWeb-Light.ttf

230 ms

TitilliumWeb-Bold.ttf

TitilliumWeb-Bold.ttf

218 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

26 ms

getAllAppDefault.esi

getAllAppDefault.esi

61 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

9 ms

getSegment.php

getSegment.php

10 ms

checkOAuth.esi

checkOAuth.esi

51 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

27 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

18 ms

cm

cm

26 ms

29 ms

s-3271.xgi

s-3271.xgi

6 ms

hbpix

hbpix

60 ms

7 ms

pixel

pixel

114 ms

xrefid.xgi

xrefid.xgi

13 ms

pixel

pixel

62 ms

2981

2981

19 ms

Accessibility Review

crunchboard.com 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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

crunchboard.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

crunchboard.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Crunchboard.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 Crunchboard.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

crunchboard.com

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