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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

blog.layershift.com

Layershift Blog

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

568 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.layershift.com page load time and found that the first response time was 568 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.layershift.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.layershift.com

568 ms

normalize.min.css

259 ms

style.css

170 ms

styles.css

171 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.layershift.com, 21% (5 requests) were made to Layershift.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (836 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.layershift.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

463.0 kB

After Optimization

340.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.layershift.com main page is 463.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 284.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 21.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 284.8 kB
  • After minification 262.0 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. Blog Layershift images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 124.2 kB
  • After minification 123.9 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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 60.5 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Blog.layershift.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Layershift. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.layershift.com

blog.layershift.com

568 ms

normalize.min.css

normalize.min.css

259 ms

style.css

style.css

170 ms

styles.css

styles.css

171 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

34 ms

nav.js

nav.js

179 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

180 ms

count.js

count.js

260 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

170 ms

css

css

63 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

42 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

254 ms

layershift.png

layershift.png

88 ms

ukdomains.png

ukdomains.png

400 ms

Plesk_12.5_interface.png

Plesk_12.5_interface.png

836 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

145 ms

support-link.png

support-link.png

163 ms

control-link.png

control-link.png

172 ms

social-sprite.png

social-sprite.png

174 ms

search.png

search.png

388 ms

twitter-little-bird.png

twitter-little-bird.png

414 ms

count.js

count.js

24 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

widget_v2.132.js

widget_v2.132.js

148 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.layershift.com accessibility score

73

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

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

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

Best Practices

blog.layershift.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blog.layershift.com SEO score

71

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

    UTF-8

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

blog.layershift.com

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