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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 39

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

soulfoodnetwork.com

Soul Food Network - The Home of Soul Food on the Web

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

104 ms

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About Website

Welcome to soulfoodnetwork.com homepage info - get ready to check Soul Food Network best content right away, or after learning these important things about soulfoodnetwork.com

The Soul Food Network serves up recipes, menus, meal planning tips, secret recipes, reviews, recipes, cooking how tos, events, videos, soul food videos and recipe videos

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soulfoodnetwork.com page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soulfoodnetwork.com performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soulfoodnetwork.com

68 ms

www.soulfoodnetwork.com

229 ms

coolstyle.css

57 ms

javascripts.js

56 ms

pop-closeup.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Soulfoodnetwork.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Techman3k.us. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (668 ms) relates to the external source Techman3k.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

98.3 kB

After Optimization

79.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soulfoodnetwork.com main page is 98.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 62.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 13.3 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. 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 11.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 62.1 kB
  • After minification 56.7 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. Soul Food Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 530 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 957 B

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. Soulfoodnetwork.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 530 B or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (62%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soul Food Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

soulfoodnetwork.com

soulfoodnetwork.com

68 ms

www.soulfoodnetwork.com

www.soulfoodnetwork.com

229 ms

coolstyle.css

coolstyle.css

57 ms

javascripts.js

javascripts.js

56 ms

pop-closeup.js

pop-closeup.js

67 ms

mouseover.js

mouseover.js

67 ms

header.js

header.js

66 ms

sidebar.js

sidebar.js

65 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

view_banner.php

view_banner.php

668 ms

nexton.gif

nexton.gif

65 ms

nextoff.gif

nextoff.gif

64 ms

backon.gif

backon.gif

77 ms

backoff.gif

backoff.gif

64 ms

background-menu.gif

background-menu.gif

67 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

68 ms

menu.gif

menu.gif

124 ms

menu-end.gif

menu-end.gif

123 ms

logo3.gif

logo3.gif

124 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

122 ms

submit.gif

submit.gif

124 ms

background-center.jpg

background-center.jpg

146 ms

sweet_treats_strawberry_short_cake.jpg

sweet_treats_strawberry_short_cake.jpg

198 ms

paragraph-line.jpg

paragraph-line.jpg

183 ms

background-sidebar.jpg

background-sidebar.jpg

181 ms

sweet_potato_cake_150.jpg

sweet_potato_cake_150.jpg

182 ms

chocolate_cake_150.jpg

chocolate_cake_150.jpg

199 ms

footershadow.gif

footershadow.gif

203 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

soulfoodnetwork.com accessibility score

39

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

soulfoodnetwork.com best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

soulfoodnetwork.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Soulfoodnetwork.com 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 Soulfoodnetwork.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

soulfoodnetwork.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Soul Food Network. 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: