Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

4.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.freecodecamp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.freecodecamp.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.425

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.freecodecamp.com

106 ms

webfont.js

34 ms

3375562265-css_bundle_v2.css

90 ms

authorization.css

145 ms

3731899860-widgets.js

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.freecodecamp.com, 18% (16 requests) were made to Evernote.com and 17% (15 requests) were made to 2.bp.blogspot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Evernote.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.freecodecamp.com main page is 3.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 117.0 kB

  • Original 154.1 kB
  • After minification 153.3 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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 117.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 177.4 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Blog Freecodecamp images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 90.5 kB
  • After minification 90.5 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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 32.1 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 29.5 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Blog.freecodecamp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (11%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Freecodecamp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.freecodecamp.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blog.freecodecamp.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

blog.freecodecamp.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blog.freecodecamp.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Blog.freecodecamp.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 Blog Freecodecamp. 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: