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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

salonmagazine.com

Salon.com | News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Salonmagazine.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

salonmagazine.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,230 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

salonmagazine.com

162 ms

www.salon.com

412 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

302 ms

analytics.js

296 ms

nasa-illustration-dart.jpg

414 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Salonmagazine.com, 25% (4 requests) were made to Mediaproxy.salon.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Salon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (414 ms) relates to the external source Mediaproxy.salon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.1 kB (49%)

Content Size

443.7 kB

After Optimization

227.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Salonmagazine.com main page is 443.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 256.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 213.5 kB

  • Original 256.7 kB
  • After minification 234.8 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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 213.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 144.8 kB
  • After minification 144.8 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. Salon Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 65 B

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 30.8 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. Salonmagazine.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Salon Magazine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

salonmagazine.com accessibility score

85

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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.

Best Practices

salonmagazine.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

salonmagazine.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Salonmagazine.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 Salonmagazine.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 Salon Magazine. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: