Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

recipes.sparkpeople.com

Healthy Recipes | SparkRecipes

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recipes.sparkpeople.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

recipes.sparkpeople.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.asp

202 ms

rollovers.js

66 ms

css

82 ms

style_inc_header.asp

93 ms

style_btns.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Recipes.sparkpeople.com, 36% (48 requests) were made to S-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com and 11% (15 requests) were made to Sparkpeo.hs.llnwd.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (682 ms) relates to the external source Ox-d.sparkpeople.servedbyopenx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 551.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Recipes.sparkpeople.com main page is 2.8 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. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 109.6 kB

  • Original 138.1 kB
  • After minification 133.5 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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 109.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Recipes Spark People images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 386.0 kB

  • Original 604.0 kB
  • After minification 601.4 kB
  • After compression 218.0 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 386.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Recipes.sparkpeople.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (32%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

86

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recipes Spark People. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

recipes.sparkpeople.com accessibility score

81

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

recipes.sparkpeople.com best practices score

62

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

recipes.sparkpeople.com SEO score

85

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Recipes.sparkpeople.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Recipes.sparkpeople.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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