Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

386 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baldthoughts.boardingarea.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baldthoughts.boardingarea.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,860 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

baldthoughts.boardingarea.com

52 ms

baldthoughts.boardingarea.com

103 ms

js

192 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

33 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Baldthoughts.boardingarea.com, 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (574 ms) relates to the external source Sendfox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 246.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

790.0 kB

After Optimization

544.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Baldthoughts.boardingarea.com main page is 790.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 342.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 210.4 kB

  • Original 247.6 kB
  • After minification 234.1 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 210.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 52.4 kB
  • After minification 52.4 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. Baldthoughts Boardingarea images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 342.9 kB
  • After minification 342.9 kB
  • After compression 327.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 147.0 kB
  • After minification 147.0 kB
  • After compression 127.3 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. Baldthoughts.boardingarea.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.7 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (79%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baldthoughts Boardingarea. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

baldthoughts.boardingarea.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

baldthoughts.boardingarea.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

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

baldthoughts.boardingarea.com SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Baldthoughts.boardingarea.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Baldthoughts.boardingarea.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 Baldthoughts Boardingarea. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: