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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

skeptic.com

SKEPTIC

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

Welcome to skeptic.com homepage info - get ready to check SKEPTIC best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about skeptic.com

The Skeptics Society is a nonprofit organization that investigates extraordinary claims and promotes science and critical thinking.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skeptic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 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

skeptic.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skeptic.com

37 ms

skeptic.com

244 ms

www.skeptic.com

333 ms

splide.min.css

26 ms

main.css

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Skeptic.com, 10% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Skeptic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skeptic.com main page is 6.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 64.3 kB

  • Original 82.3 kB
  • After minification 82.1 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 64.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 6.1 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. SKEPTIC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 293.3 kB
  • After minification 293.3 kB
  • After compression 259.9 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 33.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 59.6 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Skeptic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (32%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SKEPTIC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

skeptic.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

skeptic.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

skeptic.com SEO score

81

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

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skeptic.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 Skeptic.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 SKEPTIC. 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: