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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

slush.com

Slush 2024 | The Most Founder-Focused Event On Earth | Nov 20–21

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

slush.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Slush.com page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 4.9 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

slush.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

slush.com

89 ms

slush.org

441 ms

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73 ms

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74 ms

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106 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Slush.com, 99% (113 requests) were made to Slush.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (955 ms) relates to the external source Slush.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 804.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

15.5 MB

After Optimization

14.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Slush.com main page is 15.5 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. 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 15.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 385.5 kB

  • Original 447.3 kB
  • After minification 446.8 kB
  • After compression 61.8 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 385.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 418.7 kB

  • Original 15.0 MB
  • After minification 14.6 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. Slush images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

112

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Slush. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

slush.com

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89 ms

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Accessibility Review

slush.com accessibility score

84

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

slush.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

slush.com SEO score

84

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

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 Slush.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 Slush.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

slush.com

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