Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

metro.gr

Metro.gr

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

428 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

metro.gr screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metro.gr page load time and found that the first response time was 428 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metro.gr performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 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)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metro.gr

428 ms

metro5.css

137 ms

jquery-latest.pack.js

242 ms

js

24 ms

dmxGoogleMaps.js

137 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Metro.gr, 26% (23 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 10% (9 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (849 ms) relates to the external source Track.websiteceo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 598.5 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

669.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Metro.gr main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 782.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.7 kB

  • Original 60.7 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 51.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 388.1 kB
  • After minification 383.2 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. Metro images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 511.7 kB

  • Original 782.5 kB
  • After minification 781.8 kB
  • After compression 270.7 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 511.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Metro.gr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (60%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metro. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

metro.gr accessibility score

84

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

Best Practices

metro.gr 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

metro.gr SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Metro.gr can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Metro.gr 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 Metro. 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: