Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

stephsmith.io

Steph | Smith - Remote Work, Continuous Growth, and Technology

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

792 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stephsmith.io page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stephsmith.io performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,620 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stephsmith.io

80 ms

stephsmith.io

72 ms

social.css

22 ms

bootstrap.css

71 ms

font-awesome.min.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Stephsmith.io, 2% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Npmcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (663 ms) relates to the external source Npmcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 255.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Stephsmith.io main page is 4.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 18.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 139.6 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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. Steph Smith images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 97.9 kB

  • Original 219.1 kB
  • After minification 214.2 kB
  • After compression 121.2 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 97.9 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 209 B

  • Original 845 B
  • After minification 845 B
  • After compression 636 B

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. Stephsmith.io needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 209 B or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (25%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Steph Smith. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stephsmith.io accessibility score

80

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

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

stephsmith.io 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stephsmith.io SEO score

54

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stephsmith.io 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 Stephsmith.io 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 Steph Smith. 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: