Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

talkingmats.com

Talking Mats | Improving communication, improving lives

Page Load Speed

13.8 sec in total

First Response

5.3 sec

Resources Loaded

7.8 sec

Page Rendered

820 ms

talkingmats.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to talkingmats.com homepage info - get ready to check Talking Mats best content for Kenya right away, or after learning these important things about talkingmats.com

Talking Mats is a social enterprise whose vision is to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties. Improving communication-improving lives.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Talkingmats.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.3 sec and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

talkingmats.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,140 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.228

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

talkingmats.com

5250 ms

www.talkingmats.com

672 ms

language-cookie.js

82 ms

jquery.min.js

166 ms

tinymce.min.js

481 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Talkingmats.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Talkingmats.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.7 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

893.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Talkingmats.com main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 791.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 510.6 kB

  • Original 612.6 kB
  • After minification 596.5 kB
  • After compression 102.0 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 510.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 117 B

  • Original 791.4 kB
  • After minification 791.3 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. Talking Mats images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (63%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Talking Mats. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

talkingmats.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

talkingmats.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

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

talkingmats.com SEO score

76

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Talkingmats.com 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 Talkingmats.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 Talking Mats. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: