Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

deardesignstudent.com

Dear Design Student

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

909 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Deardesignstudent.com page load time and found that the first response time was 909 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

deardesignstudent.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

deardesignstudent.com

909 ms

main-base.PdmNAS5zFK31b0oKkb-kFg.css

221 ms

main-base.bundle.QIMUrLaRaU7KX8zc-y1JgA.js

300 ms

icons.40M_OGYuNWZ95vbyaYbeGw.js

211 ms

ga.js

665 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Deardesignstudent.com, 82% (50 requests) were made to Cdn-images-1.medium.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (909 ms) belongs to the original domain Deardesignstudent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 763.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Deardesignstudent.com main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 249.1 kB

  • Original 313.0 kB
  • After minification 311.8 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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 249.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 188.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Dear Design Student needs image optimization as it can save up to 188.4 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 75.6 kB
  • After minification 75.0 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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 38.2 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 287.8 kB

  • Original 342.1 kB
  • After minification 342.0 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Deardesignstudent.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (8%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dear Design Student. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

deardesignstudent.com accessibility score

90

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

deardesignstudent.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

deardesignstudent.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Deardesignstudent.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 Deardesignstudent.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

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