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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 34

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

linuxathome.net

Linuxathome.net - Linux news and help for home broadband internet users

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

658 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

234 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Linuxathome.net page load time and found that the first response time was 658 ms and then it took 3.5 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

linuxathome.net performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

linuxathome.net

658 ms

linuxathome.net

1089 ms

js

66 ms

layout.css

428 ms

box_blue.gif

433 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Linuxathome.net, 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Pebkac-consulting.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Pebkac-consulting.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.3 kB (60%)

Content Size

59.0 kB

After Optimization

23.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Linuxathome.net main page is 59.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 47.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 47.1 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 34.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 372 B

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 11.4 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. Linuxathome images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 121 B
  • After minification 104 B
  • After compression 74 B

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. Linuxathome.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47 B or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (30%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Linuxathome. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

linuxathome.net accessibility score

34

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

linuxathome.net best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

linuxathome.net SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Linuxathome.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Linuxathome.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Linuxathome. 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: