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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

blog.bufferapp.com

Buffer Blog - Thoughts on Social Media & Online Marketing

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

blog.bufferapp.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.bufferapp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.bufferapp.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,180 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.217

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.bufferapp.com

90 ms

blog.bufferapp.com

257 ms

Open+Sans:300,400,700,300i,400i,700i

231 ms

css

218 ms

ppibfi_pinterest.css

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.bufferapp.com, 32% (41 requests) were made to Bufferblog-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com and 9% (11 requests) were made to Brick.a.ssl.fastly.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (781 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 968.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.bufferapp.com main page is 4.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 125.9 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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 98.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Blog Buffer App images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 635.8 kB

  • Original 982.7 kB
  • After minification 960.8 kB
  • After compression 347.0 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 635.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 219.9 kB

  • Original 262.2 kB
  • After minification 244.0 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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. Blog.bufferapp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 219.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (57%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Buffer App. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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90 ms

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Accessibility Review

blog.bufferapp.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

blog.bufferapp.com 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

blog.bufferapp.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Blog.bufferapp.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 Blog.bufferapp.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

blog.bufferapp.com

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