Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

firstfactory.com

Quality Nearshore Software Development From Costa Rica

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to firstfactory.com homepage info - get ready to check Firstfactory best content right away, or after learning these important things about firstfactory.com

First Factory is home to a team of Costa Rican software engineers who provide staff augmentation and project-based work to our clients.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstfactory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstfactory.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.385

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstfactory.com

46 ms

firstfactory.com

39 ms

bootstrap.min.css

72 ms

base-min.css

72 ms

grids-min.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Firstfactory.com, 25% (35 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Via.placeholder.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (6%)

Content Size

17.6 MB

After Optimization

16.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Firstfactory.com main page is 17.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 16.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 124.3 kB

  • Original 156.9 kB
  • After minification 146.9 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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 124.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 914.9 kB

  • Original 16.8 MB
  • After minification 15.9 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. Firstfactory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 67.4 kB

  • Original 508.8 kB
  • After minification 508.8 kB
  • After compression 441.4 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 67.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 96.4 kB
  • After minification 96.4 kB
  • After compression 79.9 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. Firstfactory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (79%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstfactory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firstfactory.com accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

firstfactory.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

firstfactory.com SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firstfactory.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 Firstfactory.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 data is detected on the main page of Firstfactory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: