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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

designguide.com

DesignGuide.com, a comprehensive and efficient research, communication and advertising platform for the building & design industry.

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

959 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

designguide.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

designguide.com

165 ms

designguide.com

497 ms

Styles_2006.css

91 ms

subStyle.css

175 ms

dg.js

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (167 requests) were addressed to the original Designguide.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Designguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 565.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

11.4 MB

After Optimization

10.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Designguide.com main page is 11.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 11.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 233.1 kB

  • Original 257.8 kB
  • After minification 222.9 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 35.0 kB, which is 14% 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 233.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 302.7 kB

  • Original 11.0 MB
  • After minification 10.7 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. Design Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 119.4 kB
  • After minification 117.9 kB
  • After compression 94.2 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 25.2 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 9.9 kB
  • After minification 9.5 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Designguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (15%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

96

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design Guide. 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

designguide.com accessibility score

56

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

designguide.com best practices score

50

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

designguide.com SEO score

62

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

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 Designguide.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 Designguide.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 Design Guide. 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: