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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

index.medium.com

Index

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

348 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Index.medium.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

index.medium.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.medium.com

1700 ms

unbound.css

38 ms

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72 ms

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94 ms

main.bb6d1978.js

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Index.medium.com, 44% (38 requests) were made to Cdn-client.medium.com and 39% (34 requests) were made to Miro.medium.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Index.medium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

960.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Index.medium.com main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 590.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 176.0 kB

  • Original 211.1 kB
  • After minification 211.1 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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 176.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 356.0 kB
  • After minification 334.0 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. Index Medium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 758 B

  • Original 590.2 kB
  • After minification 590.2 kB
  • After compression 589.4 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 2.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (51%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Index Medium. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

index.medium.com accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

index.medium.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

index.medium.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Index.medium.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 Index.medium.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Index Medium. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: