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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

marchisformakers.com

March is for Makers - A month-long celebration of hardware

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

685 ms

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About Website

Visit marchisformakers.com now to see the best up-to-date March Is For Makers content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about marchisformakers.com

March Is For Makers: A month-long celebration of hardware and the power of making, brought to you by CodeNewbie and Hanselminutes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marchisformakers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marchisformakers.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.5 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marchisformakers.com

103 ms

style.css

32 ms

jquery.min.js

24 ms

jquery.min.js

28 ms

all.js

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Marchisformakers.com, 12% (7 requests) were made to Images.hanselminutes.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Images.hanselminutes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 199.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marchisformakers.com main page is 2.0 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. 80% 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 80.7 kB
  • After minification 63.5 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.2 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 65.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 126.6 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. March Is For Makers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 251.1 kB
  • After minification 251.1 kB
  • After compression 248.4 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 67.2 kB
  • After minification 66.0 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Marchisformakers.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (32%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of March Is For Makers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

marchisformakers.com

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103 ms

style.css

style.css

32 ms

jquery.min.js

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24 ms

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28 ms

all.js

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82 ms

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27 ms

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38 ms

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17 ms

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203 ms

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295 ms

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735 ms

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149 ms

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200 ms

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259 ms

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122 ms

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109 ms

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82 ms

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51 ms

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82 ms

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40 ms

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81 ms

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81 ms

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82 ms

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37 ms

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24 ms

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563 ms

js

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83 ms

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9 ms

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25 ms

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89 ms

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Create

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271 ms

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297 ms

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375 ms

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14 ms

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260 ms

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86 ms

Accessibility Review

marchisformakers.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

marchisformakers.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

marchisformakers.com SEO score

74

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Marchisformakers.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 Marchisformakers.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

marchisformakers.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of March Is For Makers. 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: