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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

deardesignstudent.com

Dear Design Student

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

635 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Deardesignstudent.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2 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

deardesignstudent.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

deardesignstudent.com

31 ms

deardesignstudent.com

20 ms

deardesignstudent.com

410 ms

main-branding-base.1MG7m3YCNTqs4YAba9e5pg.12.css

53 ms

analytics.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Deardesignstudent.com, 70% (26 requests) were made to Cdn-images-1.medium.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Cdn-static-1.medium.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (448 ms) relates to the external source Cdn-images-1.medium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.9 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Deardesignstudent.com main page is 4.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 221.0 kB

  • Original 262.5 kB
  • After minification 262.5 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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 221.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 181.9 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Dear Design Student images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 579.8 kB
  • After minification 579.8 kB
  • After compression 578.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 64.5 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. Deardesignstudent.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (12%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dear Design Student. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

deardesignstudent.com accessibility score

90

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

deardesignstudent.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

deardesignstudent.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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