Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

pghbloggers.org

Pittsburgh Bloggers -- directory of blogs in the Pittsburgh, PA area

Page Load Speed

581 ms in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

347 ms

Page Rendered

219 ms

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About Website

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Pittsburgh Bloggers is a searchable directory of blogs in the greater Pittsburgh, PA area. All blogs in the region are welcome. Listing is free.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pghbloggers.org page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 566 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Pghbloggers.org rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

pghbloggers.org performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pghbloggers.org

15 ms

www.pghbloggers.org

29 ms

dc.js

89 ms

style.css

10 ms

styles.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Pghbloggers.org, 10% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (211 ms) belongs to the original domain Pghbloggers.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.8 kB (66%)

Content Size

408.7 kB

After Optimization

138.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Pghbloggers.org main page is 408.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 202.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 73.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 92 B

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 23.1 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. Pgh Bloggers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 117.0 kB

  • Original 202.2 kB
  • After minification 198.1 kB
  • After compression 85.2 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 117.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 97.9 kB
  • After minification 87.0 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. Pghbloggers.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (73%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pgh Bloggers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pghbloggers.org accessibility score

88

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.

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

Best Practices

pghbloggers.org 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

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

pghbloggers.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Pghbloggers.org 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 Pghbloggers.org 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 Pgh Bloggers. 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: