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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

design.tutsplus.com

Design & Illustration | Envato Tuts+

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

608 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Design.tutsplus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 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

design.tutsplus.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

design.tutsplus.com

47 ms

design.tutsplus.com

125 ms

uc.js

63 ms

topic-206f88e4.chunk.css

348 ms

tailwind.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Design.tutsplus.com, 46% (36 requests) were made to Cms-assets.tutsplus.com and 45% (35 requests) were made to Static.tutsplus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (487 ms) relates to the external source Cms-assets.tutsplus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Design.tutsplus.com main page is 2.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 192.4 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 201.0 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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. 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 192.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Design Tuts Plus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 262.2 kB
  • After minification 262.2 kB
  • After compression 174.2 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 88.1 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 418 B

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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. Design.tutsplus.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (12%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

65

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design Tuts Plus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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47 ms

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125 ms

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154 ms

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220 ms

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231 ms

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217 ms

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261 ms

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320 ms

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321 ms

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322 ms

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321 ms

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322 ms

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332 ms

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325 ms

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325 ms

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329 ms

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477 ms

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470 ms

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487 ms

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483 ms

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Accessibility Review

design.tutsplus.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

design.tutsplus.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

design.tutsplus.com SEO score

92

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 Design.tutsplus.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 Design.tutsplus.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

design.tutsplus.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Design Tuts Plus. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: