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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

thedesignmechanics.com

Website Design Huddersfield | Print Design Huddersfield

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedesignmechanics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedesignmechanics.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedesignmechanics.com

57 ms

thedesignmechanics.com

319 ms

analytics2a5b.js

173 ms

bundle-playback61c3.js

180 ms

wombat92fe.js

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Thedesignmechanics.com, 39% (17 requests) were made to Web.archive.org and 2% (1 request) were made to Analytics.archive.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) relates to the external source Web.archive.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedesignmechanics.com main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 43.5 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 15.1 kB, which is 35% 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 38.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. The Design Mechanics images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 397 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Thedesignmechanics.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (27%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Design Mechanics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 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

thedesignmechanics.com accessibility score

93

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

thedesignmechanics.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thedesignmechanics.com SEO score

64

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thedesignmechanics.com 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 Thedesignmechanics.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 The Design Mechanics. 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: