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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

thebirthday.com

Birthday ecards, recipes, wishes, themes, ideas, games & gifts | thebirthday.com

Page Load Speed

18.4 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

6.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to thebirthday.com homepage info - get ready to check The Birthday best content right away, or after learning these important things about thebirthday.com

The best place to get lovely, gift ideas, recipes, celebration reasons, themes, invites and cards for your birthday. Wish a birthday boy or a gal with beautiful birthday ecards and wishes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebirthday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 18.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebirthday.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.084

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebirthday.com

305 ms

thebirthday.css

20 ms

ads_24x7.js

117 ms

addthis_widget.js

50 ms

1245523808@x01

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Thebirthday.com, 31% (17 requests) were made to I.123g.us and 13% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (45%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebirthday.com main page is 2.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 38.9 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 30.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 815.9 kB
  • After minification 796.1 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. The Birthday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 937.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 499.9 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 937.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 116.3 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 103.3 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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. Thebirthday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 116.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (47%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Birthday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thebirthday.com

thebirthday.com

305 ms

thebirthday.css

thebirthday.css

20 ms

ads_24x7.js

ads_24x7.js

117 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

50 ms

1245523808@x01

1245523808@x01

16 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

747 ms

0

0

746 ms

116917_th.gif

116917_th.gif

745 ms

tweet_button.html

tweet_button.html

1398 ms

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119311_th.gif

1428 ms

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1428 ms

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1608 ms

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1608 ms

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1608 ms

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1608 ms

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1609 ms

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1609 ms

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1597 ms

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1578 ms

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1643 ms

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1643 ms

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1643 ms

menu_bg.jpg

menu_bg.jpg

1577 ms

red_bg.jpg

red_bg.jpg

1601 ms

blue_bg.jpg

blue_bg.jpg

1601 ms

birthday-cakes.jpg

birthday-cakes.jpg

1602 ms

like.php

like.php

3064 ms

jot

jot

3347 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

2973 ms

0zf7krTbbuX.js

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2004 ms

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lH1ibRl5GKq.png

1792 ms

gr_bg.jpg

gr_bg.jpg

753 ms

ga.js

ga.js

1225 ms

_ate.track.config_resp

_ate.track.config_resp

1553 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

1018 ms

sh.886bb8b2fb82aeab6a228151.html

sh.886bb8b2fb82aeab6a228151.html

733 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

612 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

550 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

574 ms

rs=AGLTcCOnDxwX8-LbpDmaxOBIoHm7W_kGNA

rs=AGLTcCOnDxwX8-LbpDmaxOBIoHm7W_kGNA

1885 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

2236 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

1934 ms

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491 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

449 ms

ca.html

ca.html

334 ms

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312 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

148 ms

Accessibility Review

thebirthday.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

thebirthday.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

thebirthday.com SEO score

80

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebirthday.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 Thebirthday.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

thebirthday.com

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