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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

hicks.design

HICKS: Graphic design, branding, illustration & iconography.

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Graphic design, branding, illustration & iconography. You may recognise our identity work on logos for Firefox, Mailchimp and Shopify, as well as emoticons for Skype.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hicks.design page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hicks.design performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value2.361

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hicks.design

249 ms

hicks.design

539 ms

styles.css

162 ms

script.js

17 ms

thunderbird-thumb.svg

279 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Hicks.design, 3% (1 request) were made to Cdn.usefathom.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ws.audioscrobbler.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hicks.design.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hicks.design main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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 64.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. HICKS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 9.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HICKS. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

hicks.design

hicks.design

249 ms

hicks.design

hicks.design

539 ms

styles.css

styles.css

162 ms

script.js

script.js

17 ms

thunderbird-thumb.svg

thunderbird-thumb.svg

279 ms

thumb-spellstruck.svg

thumb-spellstruck.svg

275 ms

thumb-tigereye.svg

thumb-tigereye.svg

281 ms

thumb-bryan.webp

thumb-bryan.webp

427 ms

thumb-truck.svg

thumb-truck.svg

281 ms

thumb-tgpi.svg

thumb-tgpi.svg

283 ms

thumb-tetralogical.svg

thumb-tetralogical.svg

334 ms

thumb-hcw.jpg

thumb-hcw.jpg

658 ms

thumb-rtsl.webp

thumb-rtsl.webp

511 ms

thumb-traces.jpg

thumb-traces.jpg

674 ms

thumb-kezzler.webp

thumb-kezzler.webp

596 ms

thumb-zip.svg

thumb-zip.svg

421 ms

thumb-coverage.svg

thumb-coverage.svg

509 ms

thumb-ihasco.svg

thumb-ihasco.svg

512 ms

thumb-f1.svg

thumb-f1.svg

593 ms

thumb-duck.png

thumb-duck.png

685 ms

thumb-handbags.svg

thumb-handbags.svg

703 ms

thumb-ahoy.png

thumb-ahoy.png

910 ms

Podcast-Logo.jpg

Podcast-Logo.jpg

854 ms

thumb-life.svg

thumb-life.svg

755 ms

thumb-curl.svg

thumb-curl.svg

764 ms

thumb-jilt.svg

thumb-jilt.svg

770 ms

thumb-spotify.svg

thumb-spotify.svg

799 ms

masonry.js

masonry.js

771 ms

analog-scrobble-900x900-crop-q70.webp

analog-scrobble-900x900-crop-q70.webp

783 ms

Troika-47.jpg

Troika-47.jpg

1027 ms

F37Beckett-Regular.woff

F37Beckett-Regular.woff

720 ms

F37Beckett-Bold.woff

F37Beckett-Bold.woff

757 ms

TiemposText-Medium.woff

TiemposText-Medium.woff

660 ms

TiemposText-Regular.woff

TiemposText-Regular.woff

664 ms

119 ms

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a570dc5c75b460b12a530816d14090c4.jpg

226 ms

Accessibility Review

hicks.design accessibility score

85

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.

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

hicks.design best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

hicks.design SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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