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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

techbriefs.com

Technical Briefs, Design Engineering News | TECH BRIEFS

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

803 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techbriefs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 2 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

techbriefs.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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29 ms

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13 ms

www.techbriefs.com

224 ms

otSDKStub.js

69 ms

gpt.js

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Techbriefs.com, 21% (10 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 21% (10 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (488 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

813.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Techbriefs.com main page is 1.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 375.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 254.3 kB

  • Original 316.2 kB
  • After minification 315.4 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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 254.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 533 B

  • Original 339.9 kB
  • After minification 339.4 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. TECH Briefs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 951 B

  • Original 375.3 kB
  • After minification 375.3 kB
  • After compression 374.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 250 B

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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. Techbriefs.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (63%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TECH Briefs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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29 ms

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13 ms

www.techbriefs.com

www.techbriefs.com

224 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

69 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

210 ms

cloudinary-core-shrinkwrap.min.js

cloudinary-core-shrinkwrap.min.js

49 ms

e04325f501.js

e04325f501.js

208 ms

masonry.pkgd.min.js

masonry.pkgd.min.js

58 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

129 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

130 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

141 ms

bootstrap-select.min.js

bootstrap-select.min.js

144 ms

shareaholic.js

shareaholic.js

61 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

52 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

145 ms

template.min.css

template.min.css

30 ms

ls.print.min.js

ls.print.min.js

144 ms

sweetalert2.all.min.js

sweetalert2.all.min.js

160 ms

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138 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

365 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

139 ms

site-logo_tag.png

site-logo_tag.png

355 ms

site-logo.png

site-logo.png

469 ms

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344 ms

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488 ms

css

css

446 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

430 ms

location

location

424 ms

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337 ms

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041624-tb-blog-flow_primary-feature-item.jpg

335 ms

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315 ms

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335 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

143 ms

js

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187 ms

bootstrap-select.min.css

bootstrap-select.min.css

66 ms

olytics.css

olytics.css

169 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

155 ms

main.js

main.js

112 ms

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103 ms

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104 ms

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98 ms

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54 ms

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46 ms

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130 ms

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109 ms

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25 ms

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14 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

21 ms

Accessibility Review

techbriefs.com accessibility score

82

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

techbriefs.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

techbriefs.com SEO score

79

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

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 Techbriefs.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 Techbriefs.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

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