Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

so.city

So City - The Ultimate City Guide to 30+ Cities in India | Delhi, Mumbai etc. | So City

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

805 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

85 ms

so.city screenshot

About Website

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India's favourite city guide tracking all the best places to eat & go out, fun things to do and much more, curated by our very own local experts!

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Key Findings

We analyzed So.city page load time and found that the first response time was 805 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

so.city performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

so.city

805 ms

style.css

748 ms

angular-material.min.css

1767 ms

ngGallery.css

757 ms

font-awesome.min.css

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original So.city, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain So.city.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 848.8 kB (76%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

271.9 kB

In fact, the total size of So.city main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 731.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 302.6 kB

  • Original 324.7 kB
  • After minification 320.2 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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 302.6 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 40.5 kB
  • After minification 35.6 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. Obviously, So needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 522.9 kB

  • Original 731.7 kB
  • After minification 664.3 kB
  • After compression 208.9 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 522.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. So.city needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (84%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of So. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

so.city 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

so.city best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

so.city SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 So.city 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 So.city 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 description is not detected on the main page of So. 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: