Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

thecto.org

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Page Load Speed

41.6 sec in total

First Response

18.7 sec

Resources Loaded

21 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecto.org page load time and found that the first response time was 18.7 sec and then it took 22.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecto.org performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecto.org

18707 ms

js.axd

375 ms

js.axd

164 ms

js.axd

230 ms

js.axd

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Thecto.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Thectoorg00.web713.discountasp.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (18.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecto.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 340.0 kB (79%)

Content Size

430.2 kB

After Optimization

90.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Thecto.org main page is 430.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 214.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 119.1 kB

  • Original 147.1 kB
  • After minification 143.0 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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 119.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 185.1 kB

  • Original 214.1 kB
  • After minification 29.0 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. Obviously, The CTO needs image optimization as it can save up to 185.1 kB or 86% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 66.6 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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 34.9 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 900 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Thecto.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 900 B or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (33%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The CTO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thecto.org accessibility score

85

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

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

thecto.org best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thecto.org SEO score

69

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

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 Thecto.org 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 Thecto.org 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 description is not detected on the main page of The CTO. 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: