Tools & Wizards About Us
distrowatch.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

distrowatch.com

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

656 ms

distrowatch.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Distro Watch content for China. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about distrowatch.com

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

Visit distrowatch.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Distrowatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

distrowatch.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

distrowatch.com

222 ms

distrowatch.com

812 ms

dmedianet.js

51 ms

bidexchange.js

220 ms

adsbygoogle.js

396 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Distrowatch.com, 8% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Distrowatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 171.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

975.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Distrowatch.com main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 834.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 138.2 kB

  • Original 175.2 kB
  • After minification 160.8 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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 138.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 834.7 kB
  • After minification 814.0 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. Distro Watch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 135.7 kB
  • After compression 123.8 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

-60%

Potential reduce by 733 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 957 B
  • After compression 488 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. Distrowatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 733 B or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (45%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Distro Watch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

distrowatch.com

distrowatch.com

222 ms

distrowatch.com

distrowatch.com

812 ms

dmedianet.js

dmedianet.js

51 ms

bidexchange.js

bidexchange.js

220 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

396 ms

sa.min.js

sa.min.js

38 ms

o.js

o.js

72 ms

news.css

news.css

299 ms

flping.php

flping.php

118 ms

dwbanner.png

dwbanner.png

300 ms

nav-menu.css

nav-menu.css

350 ms

en.png

en.png

367 ms

es.png

es.png

368 ms

fr.png

fr.png

369 ms

de.png

de.png

395 ms

pt.png

pt.png

422 ms

ee.png

ee.png

422 ms

jp.png

jp.png

422 ms

bn.png

bn.png

423 ms

3cx-19.png

3cx-19.png

424 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

368 ms

slotcar_library.js

slotcar_library.js

158 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

295 ms

bgmsaocc

bgmsaocc

809 ms

xml.png

xml.png

133 ms

vfdmndopce

vfdmndopce

150 ms

3cx_arrow.png

3cx_arrow.png

150 ms

knopperdisk.png

knopperdisk.png

151 ms

redhat.png

redhat.png

154 ms

redhat-small.png

redhat-small.png

232 ms

libreelec.png

libreelec.png

238 ms

libreelec-small.png

libreelec-small.png

535 ms

opensuse.png

opensuse.png

250 ms

opensuse-small.png

opensuse-small.png

251 ms

primtux.png

primtux.png

339 ms

primtux-small.png

primtux-small.png

535 ms

t2.png

t2.png

372 ms

garuda.png

garuda.png

372 ms

garuda-small.png

garuda-small.png

630 ms

skoi.png

skoi.png

453 ms

risc.png

risc.png

454 ms

risc-small.png

risc-small.png

655 ms

voyager.png

voyager.png

573 ms

voyager-small.png

voyager-small.png

634 ms

ubuntukylin.png

ubuntukylin.png

635 ms

ubuntukylin-small.png

ubuntukylin-small.png

1088 ms

edubuntu.png

edubuntu.png

730 ms

edubuntu-small.png

edubuntu-small.png

832 ms

ubuntuunity.png

ubuntuunity.png

733 ms

ubuntuunity-small.png

ubuntuunity-small.png

857 ms

3cx.png

3cx.png

828 ms

3cx-small.png

3cx-small.png

831 ms

wnufepugtkti

wnufepugtkti

1116 ms

adown.png

adown.png

1030 ms

aup.png

aup.png

1030 ms

alevel.png

alevel.png

1030 ms

murnerf

murnerf

1103 ms

mly

mly

1030 ms

bitcoin16.png

bitcoin16.png

1002 ms

lightning16.png

lightning16.png

961 ms

monero16.png

monero16.png

946 ms

ethereum16.png

ethereum16.png

982 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

42 ms

ads

ads

115 ms

ads

ads

512 ms

ads

ads

408 ms

ca-pub-2079470915748165

ca-pub-2079470915748165

55 ms

e.png

e.png

29 ms

imp

imp

195 ms

placement.js

placement.js

33 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

29 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

35 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

15 ms

activeview

activeview

61 ms

displayproxy-20231031.js

displayproxy-20231031.js

27 ms

Accessibility Review

distrowatch.com accessibility score

72

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

distrowatch.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

distrowatch.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Distrowatch.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 Distrowatch.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

distrowatch.com

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