Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

balancedgrub.com

Balanced Grub - Promoting Gut Health Through Diet & Wellness

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

balancedgrub.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Balanced Grub content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about balancedgrub.com

Balanced Grub is dedicated to promoting gut health through diet and wellness. Find articles and recipes to help you follow the low FODMAP diet and tips and tricks to nourishing your gut garden and get...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balancedgrub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 4.2 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

balancedgrub.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balancedgrub.com

253 ms

www.balancedgrub.com

770 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

81 ms

flick.css

158 ms

www.balancedgrub.com

267 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Balancedgrub.com, 13% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (865 ms) belongs to the original domain Balancedgrub.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 381.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Balancedgrub.com main page is 2.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 78.3 kB

  • Original 95.6 kB
  • After minification 90.9 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. 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 78.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 278.3 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Obviously, Balanced Grub needs image optimization as it can save up to 278.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 280.2 kB
  • After minification 280.2 kB
  • After compression 265.7 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 91.1 kB
  • After minification 90.2 kB
  • After compression 80.5 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. Balancedgrub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (53%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balanced Grub. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

balancedgrub.com accessibility score

53

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

balancedgrub.com best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

balancedgrub.com SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Balancedgrub.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 Balancedgrub.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 Balanced Grub. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: