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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

designcommunity.com

ArchitectureWeek DesignCommunity Home

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designcommunity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

designcommunity.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

designcommunity.com

1866 ms

ns_ticker.js

564 ms

a

9 ms

google_service.js

19 ms

in_this_issue_pix.js

395 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Designcommunity.com, 30% (14 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 15% (7 requests) were made to Architectureweek.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Designcommunity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.8 kB (37%)

Content Size

246.7 kB

After Optimization

154.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Designcommunity.com main page is 246.7 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. Images take 164.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 65.9 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 15.5 kB, which is 24% 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 55.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 164.1 kB
  • After minification 140.7 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, Design Community needs image optimization as it can save up to 23.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 16.7 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 12.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (36%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design Community. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

designcommunity.com accessibility score

77

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

designcommunity.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

designcommunity.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Designcommunity.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 Designcommunity.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Design Community. 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: