Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

romper.com

Romper

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

947 ms

romper.com screenshot

About Website

Visit romper.com now to see the best up-to-date Romper content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about romper.com

Romper is the leading digital destination for millennial moms. Through a diverse set of voices, Romper speaks to a new generation of mothers, helping them navigate the adventure of parenthood in a fun...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Romper.com page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 3.3 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

romper.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.romper.com

35 ms

www.romper.com

1849 ms

app-39234a67a704ab9023a7c080303683ca.css

142 ms

css

137 ms

vendor-f3857bc6311e64fa2ce34b853b06e09e.js

179 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Romper.com, 52% (13 requests) were made to D2vnckkj5p9c0d.cloudfront.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Romper.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 263.5 kB (65%)

Content Size

408.1 kB

After Optimization

144.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Romper.com main page is 408.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 294.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 47.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 169.4 kB

  • Original 294.1 kB
  • After minification 294.1 kB
  • After compression 124.7 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 169.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. Romper.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (38%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Romper. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

romper.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

romper.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

romper.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

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Romper.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Romper.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 Romper. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: