Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gradientshift.com

Gradient Shift | Web Design Company

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

571 ms

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About Website

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

Web design company serving Southern Indiana & Northern Kentucky

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gradientshift.com page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gradientshift.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gradientshift.com

261 ms

pace-theme-flash.css

72 ms

bootstrap.min.css

190 ms

font-awesome.css

100 ms

swiper.css

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Gradientshift.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (369 ms) belongs to the original domain Gradientshift.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 570.6 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Gradientshift.com main page is 2.1 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.5 kB, which is 14% 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 13.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Gradient Shift images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 247.6 kB

  • Original 359.0 kB
  • After minification 327.2 kB
  • After compression 111.4 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 247.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 304.5 kB

  • Original 357.1 kB
  • After minification 309.6 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. Gradientshift.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 304.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (61%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gradient Shift. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gradientshift.com accessibility score

89

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gradientshift.com best practices score

67

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

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

SEO Factors

gradientshift.com SEO score

92

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gradientshift.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 Gradientshift.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 Gradient Shift. 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: