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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

republicofaustin.com

Life Music People and Events in Austin Texas | Republic of Austin Blog

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

197 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Republic Of Austin content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about republicofaustin.com

An online magazine celebrating life, art, music, people, style, food and events in Austin, TX, from the point of view of folks in their 20's and 30's.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Republicofaustin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 1.2 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

republicofaustin.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.186

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

republicofaustin.com

26 ms

republicofaustin.com

145 ms

style.css

111 ms

styles.css

113 ms

reaction_buttons.css

346 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Republicofaustin.com, 3% (1 request) were made to S-static.ak.fbcdn.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Static.ak.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (412 ms) belongs to the original domain Republicofaustin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

295.7 kB

After Optimization

251.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Republicofaustin.com main page is 295.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 188.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 30.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 188.6 kB
  • After minification 184.8 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. Republic Of Austin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 58.7 kB
  • After minification 58.2 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Republicofaustin.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (56%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Republic Of Austin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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republicofaustin.com

26 ms

republicofaustin.com

republicofaustin.com

145 ms

style.css

style.css

111 ms

styles.css

styles.css

113 ms

reaction_buttons.css

reaction_buttons.css

346 ms

style.css

style.css

118 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

112 ms

json2.js

json2.js

172 ms

audio-player.js

audio-player.js

212 ms

minimal.css

minimal.css

215 ms

cforms.js

cforms.js

210 ms

jquery.kekse.js

jquery.kekse.js

217 ms

FB_Share.js

FB_Share.js

268 ms

FeatureLoader.js

FeatureLoader.js

318 ms

jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js

311 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

339 ms

shareaholic-publishers.min.js

shareaholic-publishers.min.js

312 ms

fbconnect.css

fbconnect.css

368 ms

fbconnect.js

fbconnect.js

408 ms

e-201152.js

e-201152.js

412 ms

master.css

master.css

341 ms

calendar.css

calendar.css

100 ms

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Deep_Eddy_Aug2010_F.jpg

105 ms

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ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536_s_80_r_PG.jpg

104 ms

comments-bubble.gif

comments-bubble.gif

100 ms

icon_wink.gif

icon_wink.gif

104 ms

Austin_Blogger_Awards_2010_Winner.jpg

Austin_Blogger_Awards_2010_Winner.jpg

102 ms

RoA_RSS_Chick.jpg

RoA_RSS_Chick.jpg

93 ms

RoA_Email_Chick_3.jpg

RoA_Email_Chick_3.jpg

186 ms

RoA_Twitter_chick.jpg

RoA_Twitter_chick.jpg

198 ms

RoA_Facebook_Chick.jpg

RoA_Facebook_Chick.jpg

200 ms

share-button-css

share-button-css

5 ms

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182 ms

list-star.gif

list-star.gif

172 ms

XFBML

XFBML

14 ms

list-item.gif

list-item.gif

154 ms

jquery.shareaholic-publishers-api.min.js

jquery.shareaholic-publishers-api.min.js

231 ms

quant.js

quant.js

233 ms

Accessibility Review

republicofaustin.com accessibility score

65

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

republicofaustin.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

Serves images with low resolution

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

republicofaustin.com SEO score

79

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 Republicofaustin.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 Republicofaustin.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

republicofaustin.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Republic Of Austin. 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: