Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

sixcolors.com

Six Colors – Apple, technology, and other stuff by Jason Snell & Dan Moren

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

428 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sixcolors.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sixcolors.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sixcolors.com

29 ms

sixcolors.com

26 ms

css

96 ms

toolbar.css

79 ms

style.min.css

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sixcolors.com, 61% (34 requests) were made to 149426355.v2.pressablecdn.com and 14% (8 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (231 ms) relates to the external source Js.memberful.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.1 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Sixcolors.com main page is 3.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 68.0 kB

  • Original 91.6 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 68.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Six Colors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 142.2 kB
  • After minification 142.2 kB
  • After compression 138.6 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 68.5 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. Sixcolors.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (67%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Six Colors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sixcolors.com accessibility score

81

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

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sixcolors.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

SEO Factors

sixcolors.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sixcolors.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 Sixcolors.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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