Access recyclingtoday.com.

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.322

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

recyclingtoday.com

64 ms

www.recyclingtoday.com

1644 ms

bootstrap.css

108 ms

font-awesome.css

67 ms

sites.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Recyclingtoday.com, 29% (25 requests) were made to Mediaserver.gie.net and 9% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Recyclingtoday.com.

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Recyclingtoday.com main page is 3.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 143.8 kB

Original 183.6 kB
After minification 171.7 kB
After compression 39.8 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 143.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 72.1 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 993.9 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. Recyclingtoday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

Original 1.8 MB
After minification 1.3 MB
After compression 437.1 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 1.4 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 165.5 kB

Original 194.6 kB
After minification 158.7 kB
After compression 29.1 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. Recyclingtoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 165.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recyclingtoday. 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Recyclingtoday.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 Recyclingtoday.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

recyclingtoday.com

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

recyclingtoday.com

www.recyclingtoday.com

bootstrap.css

font-awesome.css

sites.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

recyclingtoday.com

www.recyclingtoday.com

bootstrap.css

font-awesome.css

sites.css

coverpop.css

rt.css

video-js.css

jquery-1.10.2.js

jquery-1.9.1.js

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.lettering.js

date.min.js

jquery.steps.js

raphael.js

jquery.usmap.js

bootstrap.js

respond.js

modernizr-2.8.3.js

lbr8cqg.js

htmlParser.js

postscribe.js

coverpop.min.js

sites.ads.js

sites.utilities.js

video.js

youtube.js

addthis_widget.js

analytics.js

www.recyclingtoday.com

collect

log.js

rt-logo.png

RT_2016_FebruaryCover.jpg

dreamstime_xxl_21102565-recyclingpickup.jpg

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WoodScrap.jpg

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