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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

somm.us

SOMM: Wine School Reviews

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

246 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Somm.us page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.6 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

somm.us performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

somm.us

42 ms

modal_survey.css

27 ms

jquery.circliful.css

34 ms

ms-jquery-ui.css

37 ms

social-buttons.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (141 requests) were addressed to the original Somm.us, 1% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (243 ms) belongs to the original domain Somm.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Somm.us main page is 1.7 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. Javascripts take 885.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 106.6 kB

  • Original 126.9 kB
  • After minification 110.2 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 16.7 kB, which is 13% 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 106.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 181.0 kB
  • After minification 181.0 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. SOMM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 885.2 kB
  • After minification 885.2 kB
  • After compression 804.6 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 480.2 kB
  • After minification 480.1 kB
  • After compression 450.5 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. Somm.us has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 120 (87%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SOMM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 72 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 50 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

somm.us accessibility score

70

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

somm.us best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

somm.us SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Somm.us can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Somm.us 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

somm.us

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SOMM. 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: