Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

sparcplug.com

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Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sparcplug.com page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 2.1 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

sparcplug.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sparcplug.com

197 ms

sunshinespend.com

402 ms

css

29 ms

website_bootstrap.css

180 ms

website_style.css

451 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sparcplug.com, 56% (10 requests) were made to Sunshinespend.com and 22% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (723 ms) relates to the external source Sunshinespend.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

757.1 kB

After Optimization

708.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sparcplug.com main page is 757.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 379.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 4.2 kB, which is 21% 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 15.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 379.4 kB
  • After minification 360.4 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. Sparcplug images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 263.1 kB
  • After minification 263.1 kB
  • After compression 259.0 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 94.7 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 84.3 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. Sparcplug.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

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

Accessibility Review

sparcplug.com accessibility score

51

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

sparcplug.com 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

sparcplug.com SEO score

79

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sparcplug.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Sparcplug.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 data is detected on the main page of Sparcplug. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: