Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

fishdb.com

FishDB - The aquarist's source for aquatic information

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

794 ms

Page Rendered

110 ms

fishdb.com screenshot

About Website

Visit fishdb.com now to see the best up-to-date FishDB content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fishdb.com

FishDB, The aquarists choice for information on freshwater and saltwater fish, tropical fish, compatibility, corals, live rock & sand, invertebrates and plants including extensive information on disea...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fishdb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 904 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fishdb.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fishdb.com

222 ms

rollover.js

20 ms

common.js

40 ms

main.css

39 ms

swfobject.js

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Fishdb.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (475 ms) belongs to the original domain Fishdb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

74.8 kB

After Optimization

61.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Fishdb.com main page is 74.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 35.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 2.5 kB, which is 15% 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 12.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 71 B

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 35.0 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. FishDB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 510 B

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 258 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Fishdb.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 258 B or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (48%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FishDB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fishdb.com accessibility score

42

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

fishdb.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

SEO Factors

fishdb.com SEO score

85

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fishdb.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 Fishdb.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

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