Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

beamsandstruts.com

Beams and Struts - A Magazine for Hungry Brains and Thirsty Souls

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

518 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beamsandstruts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 518 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beamsandstruts.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beamsandstruts.com

518 ms

modal.css

107 ms

k2.css

164 ms

template.css

147 ms

header-black.css

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Beamsandstruts.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (529 ms) belongs to the original domain Beamsandstruts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 464.2 kB (46%)

Content Size

999.7 kB

After Optimization

535.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Beamsandstruts.com main page is 999.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 403.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 40.8 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.5 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 32.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 390.1 kB
  • After minification 372.6 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. Beams And Struts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 273.4 kB

  • Original 403.8 kB
  • After minification 392.6 kB
  • After compression 130.4 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 273.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 141.1 kB

  • Original 165.0 kB
  • After minification 133.8 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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. Beamsandstruts.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (55%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beams And Struts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

beamsandstruts.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

beamsandstruts.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

beamsandstruts.com SEO score

77

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 Beamsandstruts.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 Beamsandstruts.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 description is not detected on the main page of Beams And Struts. 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: