Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

codetown.com

Codetown - Codetown ::: a software developer's community

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

631 ms

codetown.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Codetown.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

codetown.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

codetown.com

1176 ms

gtm.js

56 ms

common-982.min.css

47 ms

component.min.css

51 ms

bottom-bar.min.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Codetown.com, 45% (69 requests) were made to Storage.ning.com and 13% (20 requests) were made to Static.ning.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 696.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Codetown.com main page is 4.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 136.8 kB
  • After minification 120.9 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 15.9 kB, which is 12% 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 113.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 393.0 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Codetown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 189.5 kB

  • Original 761.1 kB
  • After minification 760.8 kB
  • After compression 571.5 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 189.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 769 B

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 99.8 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. Codetown.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (34%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

98

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Codetown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

codetown.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

codetown.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

codetown.com SEO score

89

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

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 Codetown.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 Codetown.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

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