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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

3dprintingchannel.com

3D Printing Channel Videos 3D Printers Services Technology

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed 3dprintingchannel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 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

3dprintingchannel.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.254

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

3dprintingchannel.com

1821 ms

css

24 ms

style.css

57 ms

tubepress.css

104 ms

style.min.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original 3dprintingchannel.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain 3dprintingchannel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.7 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

918.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 3dprintingchannel.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 857.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 118.1 kB
  • After minification 112.4 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 102.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 126.3 kB

  • Original 857.2 kB
  • After minification 730.9 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, 3D Printing Channel needs image optimization as it can save up to 126.3 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 951 B

  • Original 152.9 kB
  • After minification 152.9 kB
  • After compression 152.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 22.9 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. 3dprintingchannel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (46%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 3D Printing Channel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

3dprintingchannel.com accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

3dprintingchannel.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

3dprintingchannel.com SEO score

83

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 3dprintingchannel.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 3dprintingchannel.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 3D Printing Channel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: