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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

spikehq.com

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Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

582 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spikehq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spikehq.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spike.co.nz

1144 ms

css

104 ms

style.min.css

14 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

36 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Spikehq.com, 9% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Spike.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 243.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

825.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Spikehq.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. 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. Javascripts take 374.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 134.9 kB

  • Original 161.5 kB
  • After minification 157.6 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 134.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 300.6 kB
  • After minification 285.8 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. Spike Hq images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 374.5 kB
  • After minification 374.5 kB
  • After compression 366.8 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

-37%

Potential reduce by 86.1 kB

  • Original 232.2 kB
  • After minification 232.0 kB
  • After compression 146.1 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. Spikehq.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 86.1 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (76%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spike Hq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

spikehq.com accessibility score

73

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Best Practices

spikehq.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

spikehq.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

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 Spikehq.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 Spikehq.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 Spike Hq. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: