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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

lastgreatthing.com

Last Great Thing — What's the last great thing you saw?

Page Load Speed

808 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

401 ms

Page Rendered

351 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lastgreatthing.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 752 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

lastgreatthing.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lastgreatthing.com

56 ms

archive.css

39 ms

jquery.min.js

20 ms

ga.js

33 ms

widgets.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Lastgreatthing.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (236 ms) belongs to the original domain Lastgreatthing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

970.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lastgreatthing.com main page is 1.0 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 928.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 28.0 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 20.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 928.4 kB
  • After minification 895.0 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. Last Great Thing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 65.9 kB
  • After minification 65.9 kB
  • After compression 65.9 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

-74%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 951 B

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. Lastgreatthing.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (16%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Last Great Thing. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

lastgreatthing.com

lastgreatthing.com

56 ms

archive.css

archive.css

39 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

20 ms

ga.js

ga.js

33 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

46 ms

lastgreatthing_icon.png

lastgreatthing_icon.png

71 ms

shirky.jpeg

shirky.jpeg

56 ms

hilary.jpg

hilary.jpg

62 ms

khoi.jpeg

khoi.jpeg

66 ms

craigmod.jpg

craigmod.jpg

69 ms

zach.jpeg

zach.jpeg

66 ms

mohamed.png

mohamed.png

97 ms

baratunde.jpeg

baratunde.jpeg

88 ms

robinsloan.jpg

robinsloan.jpg

91 ms

andy.png

andy.png

155 ms

rafat.jpg

rafat.jpg

147 ms

cameron.jpeg

cameron.jpeg

132 ms

diana.jpeg

diana.jpeg

145 ms

dan.jpeg

dan.jpeg

184 ms

erin.jpeg

erin.jpeg

139 ms

ethan2.jpeg

ethan2.jpeg

184 ms

liz_02.jpg

liz_02.jpg

172 ms

tim.jpg

tim.jpg

182 ms

barry3.jpg

barry3.jpg

201 ms

Nick.jpg

Nick.jpg

236 ms

jer.jpeg

jer.jpeg

222 ms

all.js

all.js

29 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

137 ms

all.js

all.js

4 ms

39 ms

chartbeat.js

chartbeat.js

11 ms

Accessibility Review

lastgreatthing.com accessibility score

73

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lastgreatthing.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lastgreatthing.com SEO score

67

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

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 Lastgreatthing.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 Lastgreatthing.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

lastgreatthing.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Last Great Thing. 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: