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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

microworlds.com

Welcome to LCSI

Page Load Speed

980 ms in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

700 ms

Page Rendered

67 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Microworlds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 767 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

microworlds.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 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)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

microworlds.com

213 ms

www.microworlds.com

201 ms

styles.css

59 ms

urchin.js

9 ms

lcsi_logo.gif

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Microworlds.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (285 ms) belongs to the original domain Microworlds.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

43.8 kB

After Optimization

36.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Microworlds.com main page is 43.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 6.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 103 B

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 27.7 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. Microworlds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 90 B

  • Original 584 B
  • After minification 584 B
  • After compression 494 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. Microworlds.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 90 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Microworlds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

microworlds.com

microworlds.com

213 ms

www.microworlds.com

www.microworlds.com

201 ms

styles.css

styles.css

59 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

9 ms

lcsi_logo.gif

lcsi_logo.gif

120 ms

bsp.gif

bsp.gif

120 ms

menu-main-company.png

menu-main-company.png

117 ms

menu-main-products.png

menu-main-products.png

119 ms

menu-main-order.png

menu-main-order.png

114 ms

menu-main-support-lcsi.png

menu-main-support-lcsi.png

120 ms

menu-main-support-outside.png

menu-main-support-outside.png

172 ms

menu-main-support-contact.png

menu-main-support-contact.png

173 ms

hello.gif

hello.gif

173 ms

spanish.gif

spanish.gif

175 ms

french.gif

french.gif

174 ms

download_demo.gif

download_demo.gif

175 ms

masthead.jpg

masthead.jpg

228 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

229 ms

mwex_blue.jpg

mwex_blue.jpg

230 ms

mwex.gif

mwex.gif

230 ms

ruler.gif

ruler.gif

231 ms

mwjr_box.jpg

mwjr_box.jpg

230 ms

mwjr_banner.gif

mwjr_banner.gif

285 ms

teacher.gif

teacher.gif

285 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

5 ms

menu-main-bottom-shadow.png

menu-main-bottom-shadow.png

225 ms

shade.gif

shade.gif

226 ms

Accessibility Review

microworlds.com accessibility score

50

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.

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

microworlds.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

microworlds.com SEO score

54

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Microworlds.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 Microworlds.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

microworlds.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Microworlds. 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: