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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cardtown.com

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Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cardtown.com page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cardtown.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cardtown.com

340 ms

www.cardtown.com

360 ms

styles.css

118 ms

title.png

229 ms

content.png

453 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Cardtown.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (782 ms) belongs to the original domain Cardtown.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

322.0 kB

After Optimization

285.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cardtown.com main page is 322.0 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. Images take 319.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 861 B

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 1.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 319.6 kB
  • After minification 284.2 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. Obviously, Card Town needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 288 B
  • After minification 288 B
  • After compression 248 B

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. Cardtown.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Card Town. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

cardtown.com

cardtown.com

340 ms

www.cardtown.com

www.cardtown.com

360 ms

styles.css

styles.css

118 ms

title.png

title.png

229 ms

content.png

content.png

453 ms

button.png

button.png

341 ms

logos.png

logos.png

562 ms

background-top.jpg

background-top.jpg

562 ms

background-bottom.png

background-bottom.png

782 ms

Accessibility Review

cardtown.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

cardtown.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

cardtown.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cardtown.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 Cardtown.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

cardtown.com

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