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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

microbotlabs.com

Microbotlabs Makes Educational DIY Robot Kits and Software

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

266 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

863 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Microbotlabs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 266 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

microbotlabs.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,610 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

microbotlabs.com

266 ms

site_global.css

119 ms

master_a-master.css

129 ms

index.css

143 ms

widgets.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Microbotlabs.com, 15% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Microbotlabs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 622.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Microbotlabs.com main page is 4.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 71.1 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.7 kB, which is 28% 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 58.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 339.2 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB

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. Microbotlabs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 223.1 kB

  • Original 409.5 kB
  • After minification 409.5 kB
  • After compression 186.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 223.1 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 68.7 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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. Microbotlabs.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (22%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Microbotlabs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

microbotlabs.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

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

microbotlabs.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

microbotlabs.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Microbotlabs.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 Microbotlabs.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 Microbotlabs. 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: