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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

cstep.medium.com

Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy – Medium

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cstep.medium.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 2.4 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

cstep.medium.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cstep.medium.com

1346 ms

unbound.css

36 ms

manifest.749d8bab.js

68 ms

3057.5e22bbb0.js

81 ms

main.24597a77.js

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cstep.medium.com, 47% (38 requests) were made to Cdn-client.medium.com and 35% (28 requests) were made to Miro.medium.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Cstep.medium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cstep.medium.com main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 592.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 151.0 kB

  • Original 182.2 kB
  • After minification 182.2 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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. 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 151.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 536.9 kB
  • After minification 486.3 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. Cstep Medium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 670 B

  • Original 592.8 kB
  • After minification 592.8 kB
  • After compression 592.1 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 1.0 kB
  • After compression 960 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. Cstep.medium.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (56%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cstep Medium. 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

cstep.medium.com accessibility score

84

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cstep.medium.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cstep.medium.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 Cstep.medium.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 Cstep.medium.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 Cstep Medium. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: