Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

penpalworld.com

Welcome to PenPal World

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

209 ms

penpalworld.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Pen Pal World content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about penpalworld.com

Pen Pals by PenPal World - The Fastest and Most Secured Pen Pal Site in the World. PenPal World features over 3,000,000 pen pals from every country all over the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Penpalworld.com page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

penpalworld.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

penpalworld.com

169 ms

www.penpalworld.com

173 ms

www.penpalworld.com

434 ms

choice.js

442 ms

tag

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Penpalworld.com, 19% (11 requests) were made to Ppwimg.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Cmp.inmobi.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (659 ms) belongs to the original domain Penpalworld.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 63.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

944.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Penpalworld.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 505.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 18.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 505.0 kB
  • After minification 470.0 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. Pen Pal World images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 473.5 kB
  • After minification 473.5 kB
  • After compression 463.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Penpalworld.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (19%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pen Pal World. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

penpalworld.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

penpalworld.com best practices score

50

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

penpalworld.com SEO score

69

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

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 Penpalworld.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 Penpalworld.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 description is not detected on the main page of Pen Pal World. 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: