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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

comics.com

Today's Comics Online | Read Comic Strips at GoComics

Page Load Speed

42.3 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

19.5 sec

Page Rendered

22.5 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Comics content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about comics.com

Welcome to GoComics.com, the world's largest comic strip site for online classic strips like Calvin and Hobbes, Baby Blues, Non Sequitur, Get Fuzzy, Luann, Pearl Before Swine, 9 Chickweed Lane and mor...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 42 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comics.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.199

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

comics.com

332 ms

www.gocomics.com

675 ms

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469 ms

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1914 ms

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2288 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Comics.com, 35% (18 requests) were made to Assets.gocomics.com and 12% (6 requests) were made to Avatar.amuniversal.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.5 sec) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (46%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Comics.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. 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. Javascripts take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 87.0 kB

  • Original 103.6 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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. 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 87.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Comics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 2.0 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 158.6 kB

  • Original 191.4 kB
  • After minification 159.9 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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. Comics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 158.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (33%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Comics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

comics.com

comics.com

332 ms

www.gocomics.com

www.gocomics.com

675 ms

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1914 ms

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2288 ms

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2296 ms

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Accessibility Review

comics.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

comics.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

comics.com SEO score

88

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

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 Comics.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 Comics.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

comics.com

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