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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

blog.restaurants.com

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

901 ms

Page Rendered

248 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.restaurants.com page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.restaurants.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.074

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.restaurants.com

187 ms

www.restaurants.com

211 ms

home_section-78f30cc06d.css

2 ms

adsbygoogle.js

154 ms

show_ads.js

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.restaurants.com, 71% (20 requests) were made to Restaurants.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (281 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 385.3 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.restaurants.com main page is 1.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 740.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 19.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 718.1 kB
  • After minification 687.5 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 Restaurants images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 335.4 kB

  • Original 740.3 kB
  • After minification 740.3 kB
  • After compression 404.8 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 335.4 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 114 B

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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.restaurants.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (35%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Restaurants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.restaurants.com

blog.restaurants.com

187 ms

www.restaurants.com

www.restaurants.com

211 ms

home_section-78f30cc06d.css

home_section-78f30cc06d.css

2 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

154 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

212 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

22 ms

jquery.autocomplete.js

jquery.autocomplete.js

23 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

33 ms

swiper.min.js

swiper.min.js

28 ms

home_components-be502fb0d5.js

home_components-be502fb0d5.js

27 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

36 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

14 ms

menu.svg

menu.svg

8 ms

icons-sprites.png

icons-sprites.png

17 ms

loader_1.gif

loader_1.gif

14 ms

top-newyork.jpg

top-newyork.jpg

18 ms

top-sanfrancisco.jpg

top-sanfrancisco.jpg

17 ms

top-miami.jpg

top-miami.jpg

20 ms

top-houston.jpg

top-houston.jpg

21 ms

top-losangeles.jpg

top-losangeles.jpg

20 ms

top-chicago.jpg

top-chicago.jpg

20 ms

top-phoenix.jpg

top-phoenix.jpg

19 ms

top-restaurants.png

top-restaurants.png

21 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

js

js

48 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

281 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

8 ms

collect

collect

7 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.restaurants.com accessibility score

94

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

blog.restaurants.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blog.restaurants.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

blog.restaurants.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blog Restaurants. 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: