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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

otcshowcase.com

OTC Stocks, OTC News, OTC stock news, Small Cap Stock, Micro Cap Stocks, Stock Market Blog, OTC Stock Quotes, OTCBB News, Penny Stock News

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Otcshowcase.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

otcshowcase.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

otcshowcase.com

46 ms

otcshowcase.com

68 ms

www.otcshowcase.com

32 ms

www.otcshowcase.com

68 ms

style.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (125 requests) were addressed to the original Otcshowcase.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to App.quotemedia.com and 1% (1 request) were made to D5nxst8fruw4z.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (191 ms) belongs to the original domain Otcshowcase.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

980.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Otcshowcase.com main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 924.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 82.8 kB

  • Original 100.4 kB
  • After minification 87.5 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.9 kB, which is 13% 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 82.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 89.2 kB

  • Original 924.5 kB
  • After minification 835.3 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. OTC Showcase images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 266 B

  • Original 117.4 kB
  • After minification 117.4 kB
  • After compression 117.2 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

-24%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 13.4 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. Otcshowcase.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (34%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

81

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of OTC Showcase. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

otcshowcase.com accessibility score

65

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

otcshowcase.com best practices score

42

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

otcshowcase.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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Otcshowcase.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 Otcshowcase.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 OTC Showcase. 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: