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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thefriends.org

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Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefriends.org page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefriends.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefriends.org

88 ms

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423 ms

jquery.min.js

11 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

25 ms

js

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Thefriends.org, 7% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (445 ms) relates to the external source Acsbapp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.1 MB (52%)

Content Size

7.9 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thefriends.org main page is 7.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 3.8 MB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB
  • After compression 378.5 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 3.8 MB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 302.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. The Friends images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 564.3 kB
  • After minification 564.3 kB
  • After compression 541.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.8 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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. Thefriends.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (61%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Friends. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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88 ms

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423 ms

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jquery.min.js

11 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

25 ms

js

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88 ms

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file.php

333 ms

js

js

74 ms

main.js

main.js

68 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

29 ms

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email-decode.min.js

17 ms

yui3.min.js

yui3.min.js

22 ms

fl-slideshow.min.js

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32 ms

jquery.imagesloaded.min.js

jquery.imagesloaded.min.js

32 ms

jquery.fitvids.min.js

jquery.fitvids.min.js

37 ms

jquery.waypoints.min.js

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33 ms

jquery.mosaicflow.min.js

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32 ms

jquery-masonary.js

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36 ms

js_cookie.js

js_cookie.js

64 ms

jquery.ba-throttle-debounce.min.js

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63 ms

jquery.magnificpopup.min.js

jquery.magnificpopup.min.js

64 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

62 ms

theme.min.js

theme.min.js

66 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

64 ms

hooks.min.js

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65 ms

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65 ms

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66 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

66 ms

gravityforms.min.js

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68 ms

utils.min.js

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67 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

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69 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

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68 ms

calendar.js

calendar.js

71 ms

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70 ms

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16 ms

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gtm.js

47 ms

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88 ms

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84 ms

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84 ms

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86 ms

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86 ms

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86 ms

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96 ms

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57 ms

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99 ms

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41 ms

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app.js

445 ms

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186 ms

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205 ms

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227 ms

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119 ms

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32 ms

Create

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82 ms

Accessibility Review

thefriends.org accessibility score

94

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

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

Best Practices

thefriends.org 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thefriends.org SEO score

86

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

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 Thefriends.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 Thefriends.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

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