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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

978 ms

Page Rendered

208 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sandgrains.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sandgrains.com performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sandgrains.com

178 ms

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227 ms

new-menu-divider.gif

112 ms

slideshow-microscope-photographs-sand-grains-1.jpg

326 ms

slideshow-microscope-photographs-sand-grains-2.jpg

370 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Sandgrains.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (615 ms) belongs to the original domain Sandgrains.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

950.9 kB

After Optimization

911.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Sandgrains.com main page is 950.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 907.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 11.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 907.1 kB
  • After minification 898.5 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. Sandgrains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 28.1 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 19.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sandgrains. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sandgrains.com accessibility score

46

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

sandgrains.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sandgrains.com SEO score

58

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sandgrains.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sandgrains.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sandgrains. 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: