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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

cowbird.com

Cowbird

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

860 ms

Page Rendered

91 ms

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About Website

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Cowbird was an online storytelling community active from 2011–2017.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cowbird.com page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 951 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cowbird.com performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.32

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cowbird.com

198 ms

cowbird.com

332 ms

app.css

82 ms

jquery.min.js

22 ms

webfont.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Cowbird.com, 33% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (332 ms) belongs to the original domain Cowbird.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

88.8 kB

After Optimization

82.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cowbird.com main page is 88.8 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 45.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 5.8 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 3.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 42.8 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. Cowbird images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 454 B

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 170 B

  • Original 611 B
  • After minification 611 B
  • After compression 441 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. Cowbird.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 170 B or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cowbird. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

cowbird.com

cowbird.com

198 ms

cowbird.com

cowbird.com

332 ms

app.css

app.css

82 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

22 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

25 ms

cowbird.png

cowbird.png

236 ms

Accessibility Review

cowbird.com accessibility score

42

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cowbird.com best practices score

75

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

cowbird.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cowbird.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cowbird.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

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