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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

phototestcenter.com

Photo Test Center - Digital SLR Photography Tests Reviews and Pro Blog

Page Load Speed

20.9 sec in total

First Response

584 ms

Resources Loaded

20.2 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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About Website

Welcome to phototestcenter.com homepage info - get ready to check Photo Test Center best content right away, or after learning these important things about phototestcenter.com

Phototestcenter tests and reviews digital SLR camera lenses, RAW file conversion software, photo printers and tripods. Anything photographic in fact. It's also the blog for David Gold. Ever wondered w...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Phototestcenter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 584 ms and then it took 20.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

phototestcenter.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

phototestcenter.com

584 ms

rollover.js

411 ms

fusion.css

417 ms

style.css

410 ms

site.css

416 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Phototestcenter.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Assoc-amazon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Assoc-amazon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

221.4 kB

After Optimization

186.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Phototestcenter.com main page is 221.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 93.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 34.5 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 30.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 93.9 kB
  • After minification 91.6 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. Photo Test Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 86.7 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

-25%

Potential reduce by 304 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 916 B

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. Phototestcenter.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 304 B or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Photo Test Center. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

phototestcenter.com

phototestcenter.com

584 ms

rollover.js

rollover.js

411 ms

fusion.css

fusion.css

417 ms

style.css

style.css

410 ms

site.css

site.css

416 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

88 ms

link-enhancer

link-enhancer

19606 ms

clearpixel.gif

clearpixel.gif

323 ms

Lens_Tests_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

Lens_Tests_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

328 ms

RAW_Software_Reviews_NLens_Tests_side_v2_3.jpg

RAW_Software_Reviews_NLens_Tests_side_v2_3.jpg

329 ms

ProBlog_NLens_Tests_side_v2.jpg

ProBlog_NLens_Tests_side_v2.jpg

327 ms

Photo_Printer_Reviews_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

Photo_Printer_Reviews_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

324 ms

Digital_SLR_Setup_NLens_Tests_side_v2.jpg

Digital_SLR_Setup_NLens_Tests_side_v2.jpg

334 ms

a_Dundee_001.jpg

a_Dundee_001.jpg

666 ms

a_Nikon_18_70_AFS_DX__web_size_wide02.jpg

a_Nikon_18_70_AFS_DX__web_size_wide02.jpg

673 ms

a_Canon_10-22_EFS__DSC9353_web_size.jpg

a_Canon_10-22_EFS__DSC9353_web_size.jpg

676 ms

a_Canon_5D___MG_1314_banner02.jpg

a_Canon_5D___MG_1314_banner02.jpg

741 ms

a_Canon_18_55_EFS_web_size_wide02.jpg

a_Canon_18_55_EFS_web_size_wide02.jpg

671 ms

a_Sigma_70_-_200_EX_DG_2_803.jpg

a_Sigma_70_-_200_EX_DG_2_803.jpg

646 ms

a_Canon1.gif

a_Canon1.gif

971 ms

a_nikon1.gif

a_nikon1.gif

985 ms

a_Sigma1.gif

a_Sigma1.gif

995 ms

a_tamron1.gif

a_tamron1.gif

994 ms

a_Tokina_Gray_button2.gif

a_Tokina_Gray_button2.gif

998 ms

a_Canon_5D_banner_4.jpg

a_Canon_5D_banner_4.jpg

1197 ms

RAW_Software_Reviews_NLens_Tests_side_v2.jpg

RAW_Software_Reviews_NLens_Tests_side_v2.jpg

1291 ms

DSLR_RAW_Workflow_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

DSLR_RAW_Workflow_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

1305 ms

Free_Photo_Software_NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

Free_Photo_Software_NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

1315 ms

About_Phototestcenter_NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

About_Phototestcenter_NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

1314 ms

About_the_Author_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

About_the_Author_NLens_Tests_side_v2_1.jpg

1317 ms

Inkjet_Photo_Paper__NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

Inkjet_Photo_Paper__NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

1524 ms

Tripod_Basics_NLens_Tests_side_v2_3.jpg

Tripod_Basics_NLens_Tests_side_v2_3.jpg

1610 ms

Best_DSLR_Settings_NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

Best_DSLR_Settings_NLens_Tests_side_v2_2.jpg

1623 ms

grey_background_testcenter_55_01_2011_darker_v2.gif

grey_background_testcenter_55_01_2011_darker_v2.gif

1628 ms

a_Rectangle_1.gif

a_Rectangle_1.gif

1632 ms

a_Rectangle.gif

a_Rectangle.gif

1632 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

125 ms

n2.g

n2.g

29 ms

Accessibility Review

phototestcenter.com accessibility score

79

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

phototestcenter.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

phototestcenter.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Phototestcenter.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 Phototestcenter.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

phototestcenter.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Photo Test Center. 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: