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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

blog.shutterstock.com

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Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.shutterstock.com page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.shutterstock.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,880 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.682

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.shutterstock.com

8 ms

88 ms

app.css

19 ms

page.css

55 ms

style-index.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.shutterstock.com, 84% (66 requests) were made to Shutterstock.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Shutterstock.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.6 kB (55%)

Content Size

426.8 kB

After Optimization

191.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.shutterstock.com main page is 426.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 264.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 228.2 kB

  • Original 264.6 kB
  • After minification 260.2 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 228.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 82.0 kB
  • After minification 82.0 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 Shutterstock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 74.2 kB
  • After minification 74.2 kB
  • After compression 69.5 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

-45%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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.shutterstock.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 45% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (21%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Shutterstock. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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88 ms

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124 ms

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43 ms

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106 ms

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106 ms

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105 ms

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106 ms

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121 ms

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170 ms

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191 ms

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216 ms

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Accessibility Review

blog.shutterstock.com accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

blog.shutterstock.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blog.shutterstock.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Blog.shutterstock.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 Blog.shutterstock.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Blog Shutterstock. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: