Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

loudthinking.com

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Page Load Speed

146.4 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

18.8 sec

Page Rendered

127.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loudthinking.com page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 146.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

loudthinking.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

david.heinemeierhansson.com

210 ms

screen.css

312 ms

8248637769_effccc391a_z.jpg

795 ms

10390678523_f84e44c511_z_d.jpg

937 ms

4609620774_364bb04e29_z.jpg

936 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Loudthinking.com, 19% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Farm6.staticflickr.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.3 sec) relates to the external source Static.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 778.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.0 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Loudthinking.com main page is 9.0 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 8.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 9.9 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 6.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 151.3 kB

  • Original 8.2 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Loudthinking images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 203.5 kB

  • Original 315.2 kB
  • After minification 315.0 kB
  • After compression 111.7 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 203.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 417.7 kB

  • Original 504.9 kB
  • After minification 504.2 kB
  • After compression 87.2 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. Loudthinking.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 417.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (13%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Loudthinking. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

loudthinking.com accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

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

loudthinking.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

loudthinking.com SEO score

83

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Loudthinking.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 Loudthinking.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 description is not detected on the main page of Loudthinking. 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: