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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

indieguide.com

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Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

891 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

239 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Indieguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 891 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

indieguide.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.indieguide.com

891 ms

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65 ms

css

26 ms

site.js

61 ms

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204 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Indieguide.com, 39% (16 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 22% (9 requests) were made to Static1.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (891 ms) belongs to the original domain Indieguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.1 kB (25%)

Content Size

343.9 kB

After Optimization

258.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Indieguide.com main page is 343.9 kB. 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 254.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 62.7 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. 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 51.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 254.1 kB
  • After minification 220.8 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. Obviously, Indieguide needs image optimization as it can save up to 33.3 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 357 B

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (38%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Indieguide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.indieguide.com

www.indieguide.com

891 ms

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65 ms

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26 ms

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61 ms

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Accessibility Review

indieguide.com accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

indieguide.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

indieguide.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

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 Indieguide.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 Indieguide.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

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