Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

internationalpenfriends.com

INTERNATIONAL PENFRIENDS Postal PenPal Program

Page Load Speed

946 ms in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

565 ms

Page Rendered

104 ms

internationalpenfriends.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Internationalpenfriends.com page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 669 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

internationalpenfriends.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

internationalpenfriends.com

277 ms

ipf.jpg

288 ms

enter.gif

289 ms

world.gif

65 ms

wcf1.jpg

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Internationalpenfriends.com, 10% (1 request) were made to Penfriends.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (289 ms) relates to the external source Penfriends.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

42.0 kB

After Optimization

37.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Internationalpenfriends.com main page is 42.0 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 38.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 2.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 38.6 kB
  • After minification 36.7 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. INTERNATIONAL PENFRIENDS images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of INTERNATIONAL PENFRIENDS. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

internationalpenfriends.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

High

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

internationalpenfriends.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

internationalpenfriends.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Internationalpenfriends.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 Internationalpenfriends.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of INTERNATIONAL PENFRIENDS. 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: