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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

downeybeat.com

Home | Downey Beat

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

458 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Downeybeat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

downeybeat.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,570 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.858

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

downeybeat.com

3010 ms

style.css

154 ms

genericons.css

211 ms

jetpack.css

181 ms

jquery.min.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Downeybeat.com, 10% (13 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 6% (8 requests) were made to 4236808.fls.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Downeybeat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 475.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Downeybeat.com main page is 1.9 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. 80% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 67.4 kB

  • Original 82.1 kB
  • After minification 75.6 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 67.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Downey Beat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 268.1 kB

  • Original 533.0 kB
  • After minification 529.7 kB
  • After compression 264.9 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 268.1 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 118.9 kB

  • Original 156.8 kB
  • After minification 143.8 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. Downeybeat.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (51%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Downey Beat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

downeybeat.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Best Practices

downeybeat.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

downeybeat.com SEO score

84

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 Downeybeat.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 Downeybeat.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 Downey Beat. 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: