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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

nextstepmagazine.com

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Page Load Speed

67.9 sec in total

First Response

532 ms

Resources Loaded

50.1 sec

Page Rendered

17.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nextstepmagazine.com page load time and found that the first response time was 532 ms and then it took 67.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nextstepmagazine.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nextstepmagazine.com

532 ms

www.nextstepu.com

249 ms

www.nextstepu.com

1890 ms

font-awesome.min.css

1070 ms

modernizr.foundation.js

1570 ms

Our browser made a total of 152 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nextstepmagazine.com, 38% (58 requests) were made to Nextstepu.com and 14% (22 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.4 sec) relates to the external source Ad.turn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (42%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nextstepmagazine.com main page is 5.3 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. 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 164.6 kB
  • After minification 144.9 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.7 kB, which is 12% 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 127.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 309.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Obviously, Next Stepmagazine needs image optimization as it can save up to 309.5 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 640.8 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 1.2 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 556.0 kB

  • Original 680.8 kB
  • After minification 528.8 kB
  • After compression 124.8 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. Nextstepmagazine.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 556.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (67%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Next Stepmagazine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nextstepmagazine.com

nextstepmagazine.com

532 ms

www.nextstepu.com

www.nextstepu.com

249 ms

www.nextstepu.com

www.nextstepu.com

1890 ms

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4936 ms

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5026 ms

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1273 ms

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1274 ms

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1274 ms

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1274 ms

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392 ms

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249 ms

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753 ms

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642 ms

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640 ms

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Accessibility Review

nextstepmagazine.com accessibility score

64

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

nextstepmagazine.com best practices score

58

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

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

nextstepmagazine.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

nextstepmagazine.com

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