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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

balsamiq.net

Balsamiq: Fast, focused wireframing for teams and individuals | Balsamiq

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

246 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balsamiq.net page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balsamiq.net performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balsamiq.com

160 ms

balsamiq-complete.min.css

134 ms

balsamiq-complete.min.js

230 ms

balsamiq_search_autocomplete.js

309 ms

gri5zun.js

396 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Balsamiq.net, 19% (7 requests) were made to Balsamiq.com and 19% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (533 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.6 kB (72%)

Content Size

505.4 kB

After Optimization

141.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balsamiq.net main page is 505.4 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. CSS take 395.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 4.0 kB, which is 11% 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 27.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 74.5 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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 24.4 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 311.7 kB

  • Original 395.4 kB
  • After minification 395.2 kB
  • After compression 83.7 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. Balsamiq.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (58%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balsamiq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

balsamiq.com

balsamiq.com

160 ms

balsamiq-complete.min.css

balsamiq-complete.min.css

134 ms

balsamiq-complete.min.js

balsamiq-complete.min.js

230 ms

balsamiq_search_autocomplete.js

balsamiq_search_autocomplete.js

309 ms

gri5zun.js

gri5zun.js

396 ms

instant_page_3_0_0.js

instant_page_3_0_0.js

126 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

272 ms

0mYYqsJ-rE8

0mYYqsJ-rE8

423 ms

d

d

344 ms

d

d

342 ms

d

d

342 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

351 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

496 ms

base.js

base.js

533 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

402 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

500 ms

js

js

373 ms

ss-standard.woff

ss-standard.woff

462 ms

ss-social-regular.woff

ss-social-regular.woff

332 ms

d

d

122 ms

d

d

374 ms

d

d

121 ms

p.gif

p.gif

373 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

68 ms

collect

collect

259 ms

id

id

20 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

12 ms

collect

collect

159 ms

0mYYqsJ-rE8

0mYYqsJ-rE8

233 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

163 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

109 ms

qs_eGd-h9f3_frMeplByuCjrJjGTr5iyl3j-JE2Mo0s.js

qs_eGd-h9f3_frMeplByuCjrJjGTr5iyl3j-JE2Mo0s.js

90 ms

embed.js

embed.js

35 ms

id

id

29 ms

Create

Create

193 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

146 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

147 ms

Accessibility Review

balsamiq.net accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

balsamiq.net best practices score

92

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

balsamiq.net SEO score

87

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Balsamiq.net 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 Balsamiq.net 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Balsamiq. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: