Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

char.gd

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Page Load Speed

778 ms in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

364 ms

Page Rendered

371 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Char.gd page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 735 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

char.gd performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

char.gd

43 ms

char.gd

56 ms

nYi_hHGQu0N-RlCGpHHufZOhhJA.js

19 ms

js

64 ms

app.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Char.gd, 31% (11 requests) were made to Fast.char.gd and 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (120 ms) relates to the external source Fast.char.gd.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

443.2 kB

After Optimization

375.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Char.gd main page is 443.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 355.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 22.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 355.1 kB
  • After minification 309.8 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, Char needs image optimization as it can save up to 45.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 68 B

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 32.3 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. Char.gd has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (32%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Char. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

char.gd accessibility score

90

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

char.gd best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

char.gd SEO score

85

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Char.gd 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 Char.gd 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 Char. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: