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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

mid-blue.com

IBM BP since 1988, Power8, IBMi, Linux, Aix specialists

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

10 sec

Page Rendered

276 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mid-blue.com page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 10.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mid-blue.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mid-blue.com

187 ms

mid-blue.com

4377 ms

www.mid-blue.com

4105 ms

style.min.css

88 ms

styles.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Mid-blue.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Mid-blue.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

980.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mid-blue.com main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 474.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 77.5 kB
  • After minification 68.9 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 8.6 kB, which is 11% 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 62.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 434.3 kB
  • After minification 404.2 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. Mid Blue images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 474.5 kB
  • After minification 474.5 kB
  • After compression 468.3 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 100.1 kB
  • After compression 93.1 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. Mid-blue.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (80%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mid Blue. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mid-blue.com

mid-blue.com

187 ms

mid-blue.com

mid-blue.com

4377 ms

www.mid-blue.com

www.mid-blue.com

4105 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

88 ms

styles.css

styles.css

170 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

252 ms

style.css

style.css

252 ms

base.css

base.css

247 ms

grid.css

grid.css

245 ms

elements.css

elements.css

248 ms

icon-font-custom.css

icon-font-custom.css

261 ms

layout.css

layout.css

349 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

337 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

343 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

343 ms

css

css

19 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

513 ms

smartslider.min.css

smartslider.min.css

345 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

511 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

426 ms

twitterfetcher.js

twitterfetcher.js

428 ms

n2.min.js

n2.min.js

436 ms

smartslider-frontend.min.js

smartslider-frontend.min.js

604 ms

ss-simple.min.js

ss-simple.min.js

510 ms

smartslider-backgroundanimation.min.js

smartslider-backgroundanimation.min.js

510 ms

w-arrow-image.min.js

w-arrow-image.min.js

603 ms

w-bullet.min.js

w-bullet.min.js

606 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

607 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

606 ms

index.js

index.js

607 ms

index.js

index.js

609 ms

jquery.viewport.js

jquery.viewport.js

607 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

675 ms

jquery.simpleplaceholder.js

jquery.simpleplaceholder.js

676 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

681 ms

animate.js

animate.js

682 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

685 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

686 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

760 ms

js

js

50 ms

api.js

api.js

32 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

760 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

679 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

601 ms

jquery.parallax.min.js

jquery.parallax.min.js

540 ms

jquery.easypiechart.min.js

jquery.easypiechart.min.js

537 ms

jquery.gmap.min.js

jquery.gmap.min.js

597 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

598 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

600 ms

ajax_calls.js

ajax_calls.js

591 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

529 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

531 ms

index.js

index.js

590 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

592 ms

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384 ms

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467 ms

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417 ms

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417 ms

download.jpg

download.jpg

464 ms

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548 ms

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466 ms

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727 ms

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433 ms

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22 ms

iconfontcustom.woff

iconfontcustom.woff

658 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

25 ms

Accessibility Review

mid-blue.com accessibility score

77

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

mid-blue.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mid-blue.com SEO score

91

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

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 Mid-blue.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 Mid-blue.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 Mid Blue. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: