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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

host4geeks.com

Host4Geeks - Global Managed Hosting - Managed Web Hosting Services

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

945 ms

Page Rendered

319 ms

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About Website

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At Host4Geeks LLC we speacialize in offering Managed Web Hosting Services such as Managed VPS, Reseller Hosting, Shared Hosting at affordable price points and 24x7 Support.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Host4geeks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

host4geeks.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,640 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

host4geeks.com

56 ms

host4geeks.com

116 ms

style.css

103 ms

style.min.css

112 ms

diggdigg-style.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Host4geeks.com, 63% (42 requests) were made to D2ywlnr42y2tph.cloudfront.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (760 ms) relates to the external source Load.sumome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 760.3 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

436.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Host4geeks.com 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 682.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 43.1 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 4.8 kB, which is 11% 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 33.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 189.4 kB
  • After minification 172.8 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. Host4 Geeks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 467.4 kB

  • Original 682.3 kB
  • After minification 661.0 kB
  • After compression 214.9 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 467.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 242.7 kB

  • Original 281.7 kB
  • After minification 244.6 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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. Host4geeks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 242.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (60%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Host4 Geeks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

host4geeks.com

host4geeks.com

56 ms

host4geeks.com

host4geeks.com

116 ms

style.css

style.css

103 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

112 ms

diggdigg-style.css

diggdigg-style.css

152 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

106 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

153 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

150 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

150 ms

wonderpluginlightbox.js

wonderpluginlightbox.js

171 ms

modernizr.2.6.2.min.js

modernizr.2.6.2.min.js

170 ms

load.sumome.com

load.sumome.com

760 ms

grid.js

grid.js

168 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

213 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

212 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

211 ms

accordion.min.js

accordion.min.js

216 ms

custom.js

custom.js

219 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

219 ms

main.js

main.js

219 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

183 ms

he8At-u0_normal.png

he8At-u0_normal.png

384 ms

count.js

count.js

362 ms

23548c2c16ff2f26c171fdad86a20256_normal.jpeg

23548c2c16ff2f26c171fdad86a20256_normal.jpeg

442 ms

ZzThgKJb_normal.png

ZzThgKJb_normal.png

470 ms

THeVSscc_normal.jpeg

THeVSscc_normal.jpeg

497 ms

pic.png

pic.png

127 ms

icon-managedCpanelVPS.jpg

icon-managedCpanelVPS.jpg

134 ms

icon-resellerHosting.jpg

icon-resellerHosting.jpg

139 ms

icon-cPanelSharedHosting.jpg

icon-cPanelSharedHosting.jpg

139 ms

icon-movingWebhost.jpg

icon-movingWebhost.jpg

138 ms

header-logo.png

header-logo.png

122 ms

nav-icon-shared.png

nav-icon-shared.png

124 ms

nav-icon-semi-dedicated.png

nav-icon-semi-dedicated.png

124 ms

nav-icon-reseller.png

nav-icon-reseller.png

123 ms

nav-icon-vps.png

nav-icon-vps.png

124 ms

nav-icon-dedicated.png

nav-icon-dedicated.png

126 ms

nav-icon-domains.png

nav-icon-domains.png

128 ms

nav-icon-ssl.png

nav-icon-ssl.png

126 ms

nav-icon-the-company.png

nav-icon-the-company.png

126 ms

nav-icon-datacenters.png

nav-icon-datacenters.png

127 ms

nav-icon-customer-reviews.png

nav-icon-customer-reviews.png

135 ms

nav-icon-blog.png

nav-icon-blog.png

129 ms

banner-homepage.jpg

banner-homepage.jpg

137 ms

icon-blazing-speed.png

icon-blazing-speed.png

127 ms

icon-blazing-support.png

icon-blazing-support.png

130 ms

icon-chart.png

icon-chart.png

134 ms

master-sprite.png

master-sprite.png

136 ms

icon-trustedCommerce

icon-trustedCommerce

136 ms

icon-comodoSecure

icon-comodoSecure

137 ms

widget-loader.js

widget-loader.js

264 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

313 ms

lightbox-next.png

lightbox-next.png

178 ms

lightbox-prev.png

lightbox-prev.png

178 ms

lightbox-close.png

lightbox-close.png

178 ms

sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.woff

sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.woff

174 ms

sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.woff

sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.woff

174 ms

sourcesanspro-semibold-webfont.woff

sourcesanspro-semibold-webfont.woff

238 ms

sourcesanspro-it-webfont.woff

sourcesanspro-it-webfont.woff

214 ms

pic.png

pic.png

231 ms

icon-managedCpanelVPS.jpg

icon-managedCpanelVPS.jpg

224 ms

icon-movingWebhost.jpg

icon-movingWebhost.jpg

223 ms

icon-resellerHosting.jpg

icon-resellerHosting.jpg

221 ms

icon-cPanelSharedHosting.jpg

icon-cPanelSharedHosting.jpg

220 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

90 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

collect

collect

62 ms

Accessibility Review

host4geeks.com accessibility score

72

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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 IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

host4geeks.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

host4geeks.com SEO score

85

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Host4geeks.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 Host4geeks.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

host4geeks.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Host4 Geeks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: