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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

sharethis.com

ShareThis: Digital Behavioral Data Solutions | Global & Real-Time

Page Load Speed

713 ms in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

511 ms

Page Rendered

178 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sharethis.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 689 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sharethis.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sharethis.com

24 ms

2764160309.js

108 ms

screen.css

59 ms

smx7agi.js

153 ms

buttons.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Sharethis.com, 24% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (153 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 473.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

997.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sharethis.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 816.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 12.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 816.7 kB
  • After minification 794.7 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. Share This images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 258.9 kB

  • Original 426.7 kB
  • After minification 426.6 kB
  • After compression 167.8 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 258.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 180.6 kB

  • Original 212.6 kB
  • After minification 211.7 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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. Sharethis.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 180.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (58%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Share This. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sharethis.com

www.sharethis.com

24 ms

2764160309.js

2764160309.js

108 ms

screen.css

screen.css

59 ms

smx7agi.js

smx7agi.js

153 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

89 ms

loader.js

loader.js

92 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

54 ms

main.js

main.js

54 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

79 ms

logo.png

logo.png

79 ms

getAllAppDefault.esi

getAllAppDefault.esi

21 ms

intro-01.jpg

intro-01.jpg

77 ms

intro-02.jpg

intro-02.jpg

81 ms

intro-03.jpg

intro-03.jpg

80 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

66 ms

a

a

29 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

getSegment.php

getSegment.php

41 ms

checkOAuth.esi

checkOAuth.esi

42 ms

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t.dhj

25 ms

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61 ms

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95 ms

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117 ms

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129 ms

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127 ms

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129 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

20 ms

cm

cm

52 ms

s-3271.xgi

s-3271.xgi

21 ms

8 ms

hbpix

hbpix

26 ms

4 ms

pixel

pixel

24 ms

xrefid.xgi

xrefid.xgi

3 ms

pixel

pixel

15 ms

2981

2981

23 ms

Accessibility Review

sharethis.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

sharethis.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sharethis.com SEO score

93

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

sharethis.com

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