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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

eickonomics.com

The EICKonomics Blog: Jon Eickmeier's blog, where he shares his eclectic perspective on the capital markets, and economy.

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

714 ms

Page Rendered

110 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eickonomics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 824 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eickonomics.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eickonomics.com

246 ms

www.eickonomics.com

169 ms

custom-e25b289fa5bd97038906f4ef18acd661.js

76 ms

custom-6fecd7876ca0f30afc9248ead059a7eb.css

120 ms

font-awesome.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Eickonomics.com, 18% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 12% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (246 ms) belongs to the original domain Eickonomics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 199.4 kB (70%)

Content Size

284.6 kB

After Optimization

85.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eickonomics.com main page is 284.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 151.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 3.0 kB, which is 16% 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 14.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 492 B

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, EICKonomics needs image optimization as it can save up to 492 B or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 151.9 kB
  • After minification 151.9 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 91.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 93.7 kB

  • Original 111.8 kB
  • After minification 111.8 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Eickonomics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EICKonomics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

eickonomics.com

eickonomics.com

246 ms

www.eickonomics.com

www.eickonomics.com

169 ms

custom-e25b289fa5bd97038906f4ef18acd661.js

custom-e25b289fa5bd97038906f4ef18acd661.js

76 ms

custom-6fecd7876ca0f30afc9248ead059a7eb.css

custom-6fecd7876ca0f30afc9248ead059a7eb.css

120 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

20 ms

mgr2xbd.js

mgr2xbd.js

140 ms

close.png

close.png

72 ms

count.js

count.js

70 ms

dc.js

dc.js

68 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

54 ms

prev.png

prev.png

37 ms

next.png

next.png

85 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

39 ms

d

d

62 ms

d

d

71 ms

count.js

count.js

26 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

Accessibility Review

eickonomics.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

eickonomics.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

eickonomics.com SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eickonomics.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 Eickonomics.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

eickonomics.com

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