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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

symbols.net

Symbols.com

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

914 ms

Page Rendered

449 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Symbols content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about symbols.net

Welcome to the world's largest online encyclopedia of symbols, signs, ideograms, glyphs and flags - organized by culture, country, religion, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Symbols.net page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

symbols.net performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,550 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.112

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

symbols.net

40 ms

www.symbols.com

49 ms

bootstrap-3.4.1.min.css

67 ms

latest.js

85 ms

pub-6071864913982699

216 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Symbols.net, 74% (81 requests) were made to Static.stands4.com and 15% (16 requests) were made to Symbols.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (542 ms) relates to the external source Symbols.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.8 kB (29%)

Content Size

531.8 kB

After Optimization

376.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Symbols.net main page is 531.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 297.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 118.4 kB

  • Original 141.3 kB
  • After minification 134.8 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 118.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 52.9 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. Symbols images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 297.4 kB
  • After minification 297.4 kB
  • After compression 265.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 95 B

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 36.0 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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. Symbols.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (56%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Symbols. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

symbols.net

symbols.net

40 ms

www.symbols.com

www.symbols.com

49 ms

bootstrap-3.4.1.min.css

bootstrap-3.4.1.min.css

67 ms

latest.js

latest.js

85 ms

pub-6071864913982699

pub-6071864913982699

216 ms

symb.css

symb.css

75 ms

prebid-sym.js

prebid-sym.js

81 ms

css2

css2

82 ms

font-awesome-5.0.min.css

font-awesome-5.0.min.css

76 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.2.custom.min.css

jquery-ui-1.13.2.custom.min.css

78 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

72 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.2.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.13.2.custom.min.js

78 ms

bootstrap-3.4.1.min.js

bootstrap-3.4.1.min.js

75 ms

page.analytics.min.js

page.analytics.min.js

77 ms

js

js

185 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

213 ms

symb.min.js

symb.min.js

79 ms

top_logo_sym.png

top_logo_sym.png

115 ms

leo.png

leo.png

115 ms

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selectad-secondary-120x40.png

50 ms

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282 ms

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283 ms

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283 ms

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283 ms

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303 ms

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323 ms

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277 ms

aquarius-sml.png

aquarius-sml.png

278 ms

aries-sml.png

aries-sml.png

287 ms

cancer-sml.png

cancer-sml.png

287 ms

capricorn-sml.png

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288 ms

gemini-sml.png

gemini-sml.png

287 ms

leo-sml.png

leo-sml.png

287 ms

libra-sml.png

libra-sml.png

287 ms

pisces-sml.png

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292 ms

sagittarius-sml.png

sagittarius-sml.png

290 ms

scorpio-sml.png

scorpio-sml.png

298 ms

taurus-sml.png

taurus-sml.png

292 ms

virgo-sml.png

virgo-sml.png

295 ms

92_flag-of-the-united-states.png

92_flag-of-the-united-states.png

542 ms

font

font

296 ms

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341 ms

js

js

320 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

253 ms

common.min.js

common.min.js

317 ms

font

font

345 ms

font

font

122 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

117 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

111 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

108 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

108 ms

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page.homepage.min.js

29 ms

page.common.min.js

page.common.min.js

28 ms

Accessibility Review

symbols.net accessibility score

84

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

symbols.net best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

symbols.net SEO score

80

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

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 Symbols.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 Symbols.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

symbols.net

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