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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theideasource.com

The Idea Source, Inc. - Promotional Products Distributor: Home

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

619 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theideasource.com page load time and found that the first response time was 619 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theideasource.com performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.449

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theideasource.com

619 ms

bootstrap.min.css

37 ms

css

46 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

76 ms

flexslider.css

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Theideasource.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (619 ms) belongs to the original domain Theideasource.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

849.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theideasource.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 538.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 98.5 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 83.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 538.8 kB
  • After minification 475.2 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 Idea Source needs image optimization as it can save up to 63.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 230.0 kB
  • After minification 229.8 kB
  • After compression 196.7 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 33.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 188.3 kB
  • After minification 188.3 kB
  • After compression 154.3 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. Theideasource.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.0 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (45%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Idea Source. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theideasource.com

www.theideasource.com

619 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

37 ms

css

css

46 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

76 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

111 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

257 ms

slick.css

slick.css

146 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

147 ms

yamm.css

yamm.css

149 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

150 ms

StyleSheet

StyleSheet

279 ms

Pic

Pic

253 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

176 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

271 ms

migrate-3.1.0.js

migrate-3.1.0.js

179 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

215 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

216 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

269 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

270 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

365 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

365 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

366 ms

iframeResizer.min.js

iframeResizer.min.js

366 ms

IFrameUtils.js

IFrameUtils.js

367 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

jquery.backstretch.min.js

366 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

367 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

368 ms

datepicker-fr-ca.js

datepicker-fr-ca.js

368 ms

custom.js

custom.js

369 ms

highslide-full.packed.js

highslide-full.packed.js

369 ms

highslide.config.js

highslide.config.js

369 ms

highslide.css

highslide.css

369 ms

Pic

Pic

370 ms

QPic

QPic

414 ms

QPic

QPic

416 ms

QPic

QPic

415 ms

QPic

QPic

413 ms

QPic

QPic

415 ms

QPic

QPic

405 ms

QPic

QPic

373 ms

QPic

QPic

338 ms

QPic

QPic

302 ms

QPic

QPic

312 ms

QPic

QPic

313 ms

QPic

QPic

324 ms

QPic

QPic

296 ms

QPic

QPic

297 ms

QPic

QPic

264 ms

QPic

QPic

285 ms

QPic

QPic

256 ms

QPic

QPic

248 ms

QPic

QPic

250 ms

QPic

QPic

253 ms

QPic

QPic

218 ms

QPic

QPic

213 ms

QPic

QPic

201 ms

QPic

QPic

206 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

194 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

195 ms

LinkPic

LinkPic

200 ms

close.png

close.png

228 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

229 ms

prev.png

prev.png

233 ms

next.png

next.png

234 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

196 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

344 ms

fa-light-300.ttf

fa-light-300.ttf

361 ms

fa-thin-100.ttf

fa-thin-100.ttf

475 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

403 ms

custom.png

custom.png

44 ms

zoomout.cur

zoomout.cur

37 ms

loader.white.gif

loader.white.gif

37 ms

flexslider-icon.woff

flexslider-icon.woff

37 ms

Accessibility Review

theideasource.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

theideasource.com best practices score

83

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theideasource.com SEO score

93

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

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 Theideasource.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 Theideasource.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

theideasource.com

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