Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

sparklight.net

Internet Service Provider, TV & Phone | Sparklight

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

577 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

697 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sparklight.net page load time and found that the first response time was 577 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sparklight.net performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sparklight.com

577 ms

optimize.js

46 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

80 ms

sparklight-core

227 ms

smartmovesearch.js

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Sparklight.net, 9% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (960 ms) relates to the external source Sparklight.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Sparklight.net main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 88.8 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 99.0 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 88.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Sparklight images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 560 B

  • Original 87.9 kB
  • After minification 87.9 kB
  • After compression 87.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (44%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sparklight. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sparklight.net accessibility score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sparklight.net best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sparklight.net SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sparklight.net 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 Sparklight.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Sparklight. 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: