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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

soapcentral.com

Soap Central | Soap opera news, daily recaps, updates, spoilers and previews

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

945 ms

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About Website

Welcome to soapcentral.com homepage info - get ready to check Soap Central best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about soapcentral.com

The latest soap opera news, previews and spoilers, daily recaps and summaries, exclusive interviews, and character profiles for The Young and The Restless, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, The Bol...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soapcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soapcentral.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,970 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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12 ms

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50 ms

js

149 ms

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71 ms

css2

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Soapcentral.com, 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (420 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.7 MB (71%)

Content Size

15.1 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soapcentral.com main page is 15.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 125.4 kB

  • Original 142.7 kB
  • After minification 121.8 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 20.9 kB, which is 15% 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 125.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 10.5 MB

  • Original 14.6 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Obviously, Soap Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.5 MB or 72% 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 288 B

  • Original 314.2 kB
  • After minification 314.2 kB
  • After compression 313.9 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. Soapcentral.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (12%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

96

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soap Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

soapcentral.com accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

soapcentral.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

soapcentral.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Soapcentral.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 Soapcentral.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

soapcentral.com

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