Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

soapcentral.com

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

Page Load Speed

90.6 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

54.4 sec

Page Rendered

36.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soapcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 90.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soapcentral.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,350 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soapcentral.com

143 ms

index.php

181 ms

css

501 ms

css

637 ms

ss_ix_2017_170522.css

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 296 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (132 requests) were addressed to the original Soapcentral.com, 7% (22 requests) were made to Cdn.flashtalking.com and 4% (12 requests) were made to D.turn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.8 sec) relates to the external source Dishdigital.sp1.convertro.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (31%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Soapcentral.com main page is 6.6 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. 85% 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 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 247.9 kB

  • Original 279.1 kB
  • After minification 252.8 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 247.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 137.2 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Soap Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 632.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 364.9 kB

  • Original 426.4 kB
  • After minification 383.9 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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. Soapcentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 364.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (43%)

Requests Now

254

After Optimization

144

The browser has sent 254 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 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

soapcentral.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

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

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: