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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

macilife.com

Jim Heid's Mac iLife 09 Site: iTunes, iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

673 ms

Page Rendered

160 ms

About Website

Welcome to macilife.com homepage info - get ready to check Mac ILife best content right away, or after learning these important things about macilife.com

A companion site for 'The Macintosh iLife' book series, featuring resources and tips for iTunes, iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, .Mac, and GarageBand.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macilife.com page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 833 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

macilife.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macilife.com

275 ms

main.css

238 ms

badge_code_v2.gne

13 ms

3323309151-csitaillib.js

25 ms

book-top.gif

240 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Macilife.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Flickr.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Blogger.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (275 ms) belongs to the original domain Macilife.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.1 kB (39%)

Content Size

51.8 kB

After Optimization

31.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Macilife.com main page is 51.8 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. Images take 24.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 13.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 24.0 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. Mac ILife images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 665 B
  • After minification 665 B
  • After compression 659 B

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

-81%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Macilife.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mac ILife. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

macilife.com accessibility score

60

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

macilife.com best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

macilife.com SEO score

50

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Macilife.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 Macilife.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 Mac ILife. 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: