Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

glassalmanac.com

Google Glass Almanac - All things Google Glass. Daily news, tips, features and more.

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

598 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

468 ms

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About Website

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Launched on July 6, 2013, Glass Almanac is the leading website for Google Glass Explorers, enthusiasts and anyone interested in the device. We cover all things related to Glass -- news, features, app ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glassalmanac.com page load time and found that the first response time was 598 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glassalmanac.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glassalmanac.com

598 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

173 ms

widget.css

156 ms

diggdigg-style.css

158 ms

pagenavi-css.css

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Glassalmanac.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Glassalmanac.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 974.9 kB (30%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Glassalmanac.com main page is 3.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 69.1 kB

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 77.7 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 69.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 171.7 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Glass Almanac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 416.7 kB

  • Original 651.2 kB
  • After minification 634.5 kB
  • After compression 234.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 416.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 317.4 kB

  • Original 361.5 kB
  • After minification 292.6 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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. Glassalmanac.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 317.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (47%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glass Almanac. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glassalmanac.com accessibility score

79

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

glassalmanac.com best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

glassalmanac.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Glassalmanac.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 Glassalmanac.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 Glass Almanac. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: