Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

medium.freecodecamp.org

freeCodeCamp Programming Tutorials: Python, JavaScript, Git & More

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

331 ms

Page Rendered

11.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medium.freecodecamp.org page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 11.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medium.freecodecamp.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.425

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medium.freecodecamp.org

33 ms

medium.freecodecamp.org

66 ms

77 ms

screen-926fddfac2.css

15 ms

search-bar-124f5f949c.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Medium.freecodecamp.org, 72% (43 requests) were made to Cdn.hashnode.com and 15% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.freecodecamp.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (88 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.hashnode.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (5%)

Content Size

23.1 MB

After Optimization

21.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Medium.freecodecamp.org main page is 23.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 23.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 97.2 kB
  • After minification 70.9 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 26.3 kB, which is 27% 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 85.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 23.0 MB
  • After minification 21.8 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. Medium FreeCodeCamp images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 100 B

  • Original 41.1 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (14%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medium FreeCodeCamp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medium.freecodecamp.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

medium.freecodecamp.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

medium.freecodecamp.org SEO score

100

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

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 Medium.freecodecamp.org 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 Medium.freecodecamp.org 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 Medium FreeCodeCamp. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: