Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

610 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zora.medium.com page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zora.medium.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zora.medium.com

20 ms

zora.medium.com

500 ms

m2-unbound-source-serif-pro.css

62 ms

main-branding-base.W9J-2zkF03j8TkriAGn1Tg.12.css

42 ms

analytics.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Zora.medium.com, 53% (19 requests) were made to Cdn-images-1.medium.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Cdn-static-1.medium.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn-images-1.medium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 302.5 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Zora.medium.com main page is 3.8 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. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 204.9 kB

  • Original 252.5 kB
  • After minification 252.5 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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 204.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 96.6 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. ZORA Medium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 558.0 kB
  • After minification 558.0 kB
  • After compression 557.0 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 97.7 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 97.7 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. Zora.medium.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ZORA 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

zora.medium.com accessibility score

82

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

Best Practices

zora.medium.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

zora.medium.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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