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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

hardwired.com

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

555 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hardwired.com page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hardwired.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,220 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wired.com

80 ms

otSDKStub.js

98 ms

gpt.js

185 ms

v6.js

86 ms

platform.js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Hardwired.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Dwgyu36up6iuz.cloudfront.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (30%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Hardwired.com main page is 4.0 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. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 155.0 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 1.0 MB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 709.5 kB
  • After minification 709.5 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. Hard WIRED images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 161.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 2.0 MB

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 38 (81%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hard WIRED. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hardwired.com accessibility score

98

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

Best Practices

hardwired.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hardwired.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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