Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

smartcitiesdive.com

Smart Cities News | Smart Cities Dive

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

550 ms

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About Website

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Smart Cities Dive provides in-depth journalism and analysis into the most impactful news and trends shaping smart cities. We cover the latest trends on sustainable, connected, and livable cities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smartcitiesdive.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smartcitiesdive.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,750 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smartcitiesdive.com

112 ms

smartcitiesdive.com

55 ms

www.smartcitiesdive.com

176 ms

osano.js

29 ms

dive_app.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Smartcitiesdive.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fundingchoicesmessages.google.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (604 ms) belongs to the original domain Smartcitiesdive.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.5 kB (37%)

Content Size

693.1 kB

After Optimization

435.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Smartcitiesdive.com main page is 693.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% 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 337.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 248.9 kB

  • Original 281.6 kB
  • After minification 130.3 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 151.3 kB, which is 54% 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 248.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 337.8 kB
  • After minification 329.2 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. Smart Cities Dive images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 73.7 kB
  • After minification 73.7 kB
  • After compression 73.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (51%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smart Cities Dive. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smartcitiesdive.com accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

SEO Factors

smartcitiesdive.com 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Smartcitiesdive.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 Smartcitiesdive.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Smart Cities Dive. 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: