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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

searchjournal.com

Search Engine Journal - SEO, Search Marketing News and Tutorials

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

730 ms

Page Rendered

575 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Search Journal content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about searchjournal.com

Search Engine Journal is dedicated to producing the latest search news, the best guides and how-tos for the SEO and marketer community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Searchjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 1.3 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

searchjournal.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.searchenginejournal.com

12 ms

www.searchenginejournal.com

55 ms

tcfapi.js

18 ms

cmp.js

115 ms

variables.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Searchjournal.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Cmp.uniconsent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (216 ms) relates to the external source Searchenginejournal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 509.8 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Searchjournal.com main page is 2.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 456.3 kB

  • Original 517.7 kB
  • After minification 414.8 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 102.9 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 456.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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. Search Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 597.3 kB
  • After minification 597.2 kB
  • After compression 549.7 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 42.9 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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. Searchjournal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (47%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

68

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

searchjournal.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

searchjournal.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

searchjournal.com SEO score

100

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

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 Searchjournal.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 Searchjournal.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 Search Journal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: