Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epicenter.bg page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epicenter.bg performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.193

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epicenter.bg

1047 ms

style.php

543 ms

mosaic.css

259 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

261 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

258 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (109 requests) were addressed to the original Epicenter.bg, 2% (3 requests) were made to Gabg.hit.gemius.pl and 2% (3 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Epicenter.bg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (17%)

Content Size

12.4 MB

After Optimization

10.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Epicenter.bg main page is 12.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 12.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 87.1 kB

  • Original 114.2 kB
  • After minification 105.3 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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 87.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 12.0 MB
  • After minification 10.1 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. Obviously, Epicenter needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.9 MB 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

-56%

Potential reduce by 150.2 kB

  • Original 270.4 kB
  • After minification 240.7 kB
  • After compression 120.2 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 150.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Epicenter.bg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (14%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

103

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epicenter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

epicenter.bg accessibility score

68

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

epicenter.bg 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

epicenter.bg SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    BG

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Epicenter.bg can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Bulgarian 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 Epicenter.bg 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 Epicenter. 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: