Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

commonblog.com

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Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

236 ms

Resources Loaded

539 ms

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Commonblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 236 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

commonblog.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.229

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

commonblog.com

236 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

19 ms

A.style.css,qver=2.2.1.pagespeed.cf.9D-NrSN3rp.css

58 ms

dashicons.min.css,qver=4.6.3.pagespeed.ce.zzwOjyb-IC.css

80 ms

css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Commonblog.com, 3% (1 request) were made to and 3% (1 request) were made to 0. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (236 ms) belongs to the original domain Commonblog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Commonblog.com main page is 1.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 36.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 183 B

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Common Blog images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 70.3 kB
  • After minification 70.2 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Commonblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.7 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Common Blog. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

commonblog.com accessibility score

95

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

commonblog.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

SEO Factors

commonblog.com SEO score

77

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 Commonblog.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 Commonblog.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 Common Blog. 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: