Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

zestuous.com

Zestuous | Easy Recipes Inspired by Cultures from Around the World

Page Load Speed

12.2 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

zestuous.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Zestuous content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about zestuous.com

From Filipino cuisine to classic French techniques to sultry Southern food, Zestuous is home to hundreds of easy recipes with step-by-step photos developed for home cooks

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zestuous.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zestuous.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,280 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.zestuous.com

2372 ms

shareaholic.js

42 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

62 ms

styles.css

56 ms

frontend-style.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 224 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Zestuous.com, 4% (9 requests) were made to Sumome-140a.kxcdn.com and 4% (8 requests) were made to Thedailymeal.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Zestuous.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (22%)

Content Size

9.7 MB

After Optimization

7.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Zestuous.com main page is 9.7 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 363.1 kB

  • Original 417.6 kB
  • After minification 400.5 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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 363.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 199.8 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 7.0 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. Zestuous images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 925.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 413.0 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 925.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 690.9 kB

  • Original 767.9 kB
  • After minification 737.0 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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. Zestuous.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 690.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (54%)

Requests Now

202

After Optimization

92

The browser has sent 202 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zestuous. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

zestuous.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

zestuous.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

zestuous.com SEO score

99

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Zestuous.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 Zestuous.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 Zestuous. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: