Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

idealab.com

Idealab

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

442 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Idealab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

idealab.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

idealab.com

230 ms

www.idealab.com

430 ms

styles.css

73 ms

fivehome.css

174 ms

mm.js

173 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Idealab.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Widgets.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (762 ms) belongs to the original domain Idealab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 140.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

990.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Idealab.com main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 957.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 36.8 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 28.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 957.0 kB
  • After minification 932.7 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. Idealab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 61.6 kB

  • Original 106.3 kB
  • After minification 102.7 kB
  • After compression 44.7 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 61.6 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Idealab.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (42%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Idealab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

idealab.com accessibility score

70

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.

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

idealab.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

idealab.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

robots.txt is not valid

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