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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

search.siliconrepublic.com

Silicon Republic | Technology, science and start-up news

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

781 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

3.9 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.siliconrepublic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 781 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

search.siliconrepublic.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.siliconrepublic.com

781 ms

otSDKStub.js

34 ms

myr1bop.css

1119 ms

site.min.css

177 ms

main.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Search.siliconrepublic.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to Img.resized.co and 5% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 156.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

897.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Search.siliconrepublic.com main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 624.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 129.1 kB

  • Original 149.4 kB
  • After minification 109.4 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 39.9 kB, which is 27% 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 129.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 624.9 kB
  • After minification 622.3 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. Search Silicon Republic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 240.3 kB
  • After minification 240.3 kB
  • After compression 226.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 39.5 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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. Search.siliconrepublic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (16%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

84

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search Silicon Republic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

search.siliconrepublic.com accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

search.siliconrepublic.com best practices score

75

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

search.siliconrepublic.com SEO score

85

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

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 Search.siliconrepublic.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 Search.siliconrepublic.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 Search Silicon Republic. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: