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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

blog.protolabs.com

The Digital Thread | Rapid Manufacturing Blog | Protolabs

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

731 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.protolabs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.protolabs.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,870 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

192 ms

datadog-rum-v4.js

29 ms

style.css

82 ms

vendor.js

76 ms

email-decode.min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blog.protolabs.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Protolabs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

971.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.protolabs.com main page is 1.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 912.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 73.9 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 56.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 912.2 kB
  • After minification 900.5 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. Blog Protolabs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 53.5 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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

-32%

Potential reduce by 677 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Blog.protolabs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 677 B or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (61%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Protolabs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

192 ms

datadog-rum-v4.js

datadog-rum-v4.js

29 ms

style.css

style.css

82 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

76 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

25 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

65 ms

35 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

274 ms

185 ms

the_upload_blog_header_1550x290_2.jpg

the_upload_blog_header_1550x290_2.jpg

2072 ms

jairus.gif

jairus.gif

2083 ms

featured-image.jpg

featured-image.jpg

1694 ms

prototyping-cover-art_580x308.jpg

prototyping-cover-art_580x308.jpg

1854 ms

featured-image.jpg

featured-image.jpg

1973 ms

berekely-2_570x308.jpg

berekely-2_570x308.jpg

2319 ms

secondary_ops_custom_colorant_4817_low_res_580x308.jpg

secondary_ops_custom_colorant_4817_low_res_580x308.jpg

1879 ms

sheet-metal-notches-tabs-570x308.jpg

sheet-metal-notches-tabs-570x308.jpg

2054 ms

im_2011_resin_closeup_5121_low_res_570x308.jpg

im_2011_resin_closeup_5121_low_res_570x308.jpg

2125 ms

smf_2016_245_shadow_lr_570x308.jpg

smf_2016_245_shadow_lr_570x308.jpg

2151 ms

im-nylon_resin_pellets_570x308.jpg

im-nylon_resin_pellets_570x308.jpg

2152 ms

untitled-design-6_570x308.jpg

untitled-design-6_570x308.jpg

2355 ms

Protolabs_horizontal_logo_tagline_inverse_RGB.svg

Protolabs_horizontal_logo_tagline_inverse_RGB.svg

1969 ms

circularstd-book.woff

circularstd-book.woff

1992 ms

circularstd-medium.woff

circularstd-medium.woff

2376 ms

plicons.woff

plicons.woff

2193 ms

1.css

1.css

110 ms

7180.js

7180.js

246 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

248 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

286 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

279 ms

bat.js

bat.js

462 ms

ytc.js

ytc.js

227 ms

js

js

79 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

477 ms

atrk.js

atrk.js

426 ms

wt.php

wt.php

484 ms

up.js

up.js

557 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

366 ms

www.protolabs.com.json

www.protolabs.com.json

139 ms

10148774.json

10148774.json

138 ms

collect

collect

188 ms

408 ms

a18bb0e21d11a839b7adb013c92ee611.js

a18bb0e21d11a839b7adb013c92ee611.js

150 ms

329777567751072

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158 ms

5105261.js

5105261.js

147 ms

atrk.gif

atrk.gif

298 ms

collect

collect

111 ms

webtraxs.php

webtraxs.php

202 ms

adsct

adsct

212 ms

adsct

adsct

269 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

179 ms

5105261

5105261

222 ms

83 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

21 ms

25 ms

pd.js

pd.js

132 ms

analytics

analytics

214 ms

analytics

analytics

77 ms

c.gif

c.gif

83 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.protolabs.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

blog.protolabs.com best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blog.protolabs.com SEO score

86

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

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

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 Blog.protolabs.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 Blog.protolabs.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 Blog Protolabs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: