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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

generalassemb.ly

Tech Training in Coding, Data, & UX | General Assembly

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

586 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Generalassemb.ly page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

generalassemb.ly performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,590 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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37 ms

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354 ms

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85 ms

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174 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Generalassemb.ly, 18% (16 requests) were made to Ga-shop-production-herokuapp-com.global.ssl.fastly.net and 14% (13 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (621 ms) relates to the external source Servedby.flashtalking.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (40%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Generalassemb.ly main page is 2.8 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 49.6 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 62.6 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 49.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 246.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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, General Assemb needs image optimization as it can save up to 246.5 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 723.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 351.2 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 723.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 84.4 kB

  • Original 129.3 kB
  • After minification 128.8 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. Generalassemb.ly needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 84.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (57%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of General Assemb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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37 ms

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354 ms

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69 ms

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Accessibility Review

generalassemb.ly accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

generalassemb.ly best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

generalassemb.ly 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

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

    UTF-8

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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of General Assemb. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: