Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

theinformaticists.com

The Informaticists – A take on the science of information

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

868 ms

Page Rendered

154 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theinformaticists.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theinformaticists.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.205

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theinformaticists.com

12 ms

theinformaticists.com

284 ms

webfont.js

49 ms

79 ms

dashicons.min.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Theinformaticists.com, 43% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.wp.com and 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts-api.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (447 ms) belongs to the original domain Theinformaticists.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 566.7 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Theinformaticists.com main page is 1.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 31.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 534.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 953.5 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 Informaticists needs image optimization as it can save up to 534.8 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 815 B

  • Original 62.9 kB
  • After minification 62.9 kB
  • After compression 62.1 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 35.7 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Theinformaticists.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (80%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Informaticists. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theinformaticists.com accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

theinformaticists.com 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

theinformaticists.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Theinformaticists.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 Theinformaticists.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

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