Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

itstep.org

STEP IT Academy | Modern IT education

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

itstep.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itstep.org page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itstep.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itstep.org

241 ms

itstep.org

670 ms

hub-pages.css

474 ms

country.js

651 ms

common.js

491 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Itstep.org, 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Itstep.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

567.7 kB

After Optimization

526.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Itstep.org main page is 567.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 357.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 37.9 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 31.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 98.1 kB
  • After minification 89.0 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. It STEP images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 357.0 kB
  • After minification 357.0 kB
  • After compression 356.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 74.7 kB
  • After compression 74.7 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. Itstep.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (14%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of It STEP. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

itstep.org accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

itstep.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

itstep.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    PL

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Itstep.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Polish is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Itstep.org 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 description is not detected on the main page of It STEP. 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: