Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

keepingupwiththecity.com

Home - Keeping up with the City

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

156 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Keepingupwiththecity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 156 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

keepingupwiththecity.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

keepingupwiththecity.com

156 ms

www.keepingupwiththecity.com

2309 ms

all.min.css

183 ms

line-awesome.min.css

179 ms

dlmenu.css

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Keepingupwiththecity.com, 17% (18 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 14% (15 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Keepingupwiththecity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 290.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Keepingupwiththecity.com main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 95.2 kB

  • Original 118.2 kB
  • After minification 116.8 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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 95.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 57.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Keeping Upwiththe City images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 187.8 kB
  • After minification 187.8 kB
  • After compression 161.6 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 26.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 111.7 kB

  • Original 281.1 kB
  • After minification 264.2 kB
  • After compression 169.4 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. Keepingupwiththecity.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 111.7 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (69%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Keeping Upwiththe City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

keepingupwiththecity.com accessibility score

72

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

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

keepingupwiththecity.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

keepingupwiththecity.com SEO score

90

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

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