Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

slate.co

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Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

839 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slate.co page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

slate.co performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

slate.co

1613 ms

autoptimize_b241c278ec22d4c908b6682beb407cff.css

155 ms

autoptimize_single_7b8daf750636d0d5647813269286bde6.css

93 ms

autoptimize_single_32f4a6064610488ffabdd03e1896d91c.css

93 ms

jquery.min.js

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Slate.co, 19% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Slate.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 513.3 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

536.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Slate.co main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 603.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 68.8 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 84.4 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 68.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 138.2 kB

  • Original 603.1 kB
  • After minification 464.9 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. Obviously, Slate needs image optimization as it can save up to 138.2 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 109 B

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 53.9 kB
  • After compression 53.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 306.2 kB

  • Original 308.7 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Slate.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 306.2 kB or 99% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (47%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

slate.co accessibility score

79

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

slate.co best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

slate.co SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Slate.co 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 Slate.co 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

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