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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

thegrowthproject.blog

Inspirational Stories and Resources | The Growth Project

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

106 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

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About Website

Visit thegrowthproject.blog now to see the best up-to-date The Growth Project content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thegrowthproject.blog

The Growth Project is a blog about personal development started by Thayer Fox that features weekly growth stories and resources for personal growth.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegrowthproject.blog page load time and found that the first response time was 106 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegrowthproject.blog performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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106 ms

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1226 ms

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52 ms

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69 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Thegrowthproject.blog, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thegrowthproject.blog.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 286.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegrowthproject.blog main page is 4.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 135.6 kB

  • Original 159.4 kB
  • After minification 154.8 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 135.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 94.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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 Growth Project images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 206.1 kB
  • After minification 206.1 kB
  • After compression 181.0 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 25.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 143.8 kB
  • After minification 141.9 kB
  • After compression 112.3 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. Thegrowthproject.blog needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (50%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Growth Project. 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 from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thegrowthproject.blog accessibility score

84

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thegrowthproject.blog best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

thegrowthproject.blog SEO score

92

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

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 Thegrowthproject.blog 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 Thegrowthproject.blog 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 Growth Project. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: