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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

askthecssguy.com

Ask the CSS Guy

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Askthecssguy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

askthecssguy.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

askthecssguy.com

126 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

13 ms

style.css

19 ms

style.css

17 ms

css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Askthecssguy.com, 18% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (558 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 295.4 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

895.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Askthecssguy.com main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 786.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 54.8 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 72.4 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 54.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 786.7 kB
  • After minification 769.0 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. Ask The CSS Guy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 120.3 kB

  • Original 193.0 kB
  • After minification 191.4 kB
  • After compression 72.6 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 120.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 136.1 kB
  • After minification 109.0 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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. Askthecssguy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (37%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ask The CSS Guy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

askthecssguy.com

askthecssguy.com

126 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

13 ms

style.css

style.css

19 ms

style.css

style.css

17 ms

css

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71 ms

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genericons.css

22 ms

style.css

style.css

21 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

18 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

32 ms

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31 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

28 ms

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jquery.masonry.min.js

28 ms

functions.js

functions.js

27 ms

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wp-embed.min.js

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ga.js

558 ms

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520 ms

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all.js

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Accessibility Review

askthecssguy.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

askthecssguy.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

SEO Factors

askthecssguy.com SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Askthecssguy.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 Askthecssguy.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

askthecssguy.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ask The CSS Guy. 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: