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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

linuxmint.com

Home - Linux Mint

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

788 ms

Page Rendered

772 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Linuxmint.com page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

linuxmint.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

linuxmint.com

15 ms

linuxmint.com

30 ms

fonts.css

163 ms

all.min.css

263 ms

themify-icons.css

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Linuxmint.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (623 ms) belongs to the original domain Linuxmint.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

497.4 kB

After Optimization

385.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Linuxmint.com main page is 497.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 269.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 48.5 kB
  • After minification 41.0 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 7.4 kB, which is 15% 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 40.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 64.2 kB

  • Original 269.3 kB
  • After minification 205.1 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. Obviously, Linux Mint needs image optimization as it can save up to 64.2 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 89.1 kB
  • After minification 89.1 kB
  • After compression 87.4 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.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 90.6 kB
  • After compression 84.6 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. Linuxmint.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (50%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Linux Mint. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

linuxmint.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

linuxmint.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

linuxmint.com SEO score

89

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

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 Linuxmint.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 Linuxmint.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 Linux Mint. 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: