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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

thalamusdesign.com

Thalamus Interactive Design: Ames Iowa Web Design, Flash Design, Audiovisual Services

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

633 ms

Page Rendered

98 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thalamusdesign.com page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 731 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thalamusdesign.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thalamusdesign.com

309 ms

swfaddress-optimizer.js

85 ms

css

21 ms

thalamus.css

160 ms

swfobject.js

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Thalamusdesign.com, 23% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 15% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (309 ms) belongs to the original domain Thalamusdesign.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

42.9 kB

After Optimization

31.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thalamusdesign.com main page is 42.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 27.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 2.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4 B

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Thalamus Design images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 27.3 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 7.0 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 612 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. Thalamusdesign.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (30%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thalamus Design. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thalamusdesign.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

thalamusdesign.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

SEO Factors

thalamusdesign.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thalamusdesign.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 Thalamusdesign.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 Thalamus Design. 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: