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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

sparcit.com

Creativity Assessment | Creativity Quotient | Semantic analysis - SparcIt

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

376 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sparcit.com page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sparcit.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sparcit.com

124 ms

www.sparcit.com

144 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

91 ms

public_common.css

68 ms

layout.min.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sparcit.com, 60% (24 requests) were made to Cdn2.hubspot.net and 8% (3 requests) were made to Static.hsstatic.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn2.hubspot.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.2 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

589.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sparcit.com main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 517.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 44.8 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.0 kB, which is 18% 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 44.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 416.1 kB
  • After minification 408.8 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. Sparc It images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 350.0 kB

  • Original 517.4 kB
  • After minification 517.4 kB
  • After compression 167.4 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 350.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Sparcit.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (47%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sparc It. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sparcit.com accessibility score

81

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

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

sparcit.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sparcit.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Sparcit.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 Sparcit.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 Sparc It. 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: