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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

buffer.com

Buffer: All-you-need social media toolkit for small businesses

Page Load Speed

328 ms in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

215 ms

Page Rendered

66 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buffer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 281 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buffer.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buffer.com

47 ms

buffer.com

32 ms

cf.errors.css

28 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

113 ms

browser-bar.png

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Buffer.com, 17% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (113 ms) relates to the external source Static.cloudflareinsights.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.1 kB (23%)

Content Size

13.4 kB

After Optimization

10.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buffer.com main page is 13.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 4.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 3.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Buffer images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Buffer.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buffer. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

buffer.com

buffer.com

47 ms

buffer.com

buffer.com

32 ms

cf.errors.css

cf.errors.css

28 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

113 ms

browser-bar.png

browser-bar.png

4 ms

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

8 ms

Accessibility Review

buffer.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

buffer.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buffer.com SEO score

93

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

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 Buffer.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 Buffer.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

buffer.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Buffer. 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: