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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

blogs.payscale.com

Career Advice: Tips on Salary Negotiation and Job Progression - Payscale

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

494 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.payscale.com page load time and found that the first response time was 290 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

blogs.payscale.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.payscale.com

290 ms

career-news

692 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

107 ms

payscale-consumer.min.css

81 ms

header-footer.min.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.payscale.com, 28% (54 requests) were made to Cdn-payscale.com and 5% (10 requests) were made to Ums.adtechus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (749 ms) relates to the external source Payscale.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (57%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

792.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.payscale.com main page is 1.8 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. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 83.6 kB

  • Original 108.9 kB
  • After minification 94.6 kB
  • After compression 25.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.3 kB, which is 13% 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 83.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 403.1 kB
  • After minification 365.6 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. Blogs Payscale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 684.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 351.1 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 684.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 251.4 kB

  • Original 302.1 kB
  • After minification 296.4 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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. Blogs.payscale.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 251.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 112 (65%)

Requests Now

171

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 171 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Payscale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blogs.payscale.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

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

blogs.payscale.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blogs.payscale.com SEO score

81

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.payscale.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 Blogs.payscale.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

blogs.payscale.com

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