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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

theinnovationhub.com

Innovation Catalyst | The Innovation Hub | The Innovation Hub

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

465 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theinnovationhub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 465 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theinnovationhub.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theinnovationhub.com

465 ms

theinnovationhub.com

248 ms

www.theinnovationhub.com

685 ms

js

104 ms

fbevents.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Theinnovationhub.com, 7% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Theinnovationhub.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theinnovationhub.com main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.8 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 66.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 134.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 903.2 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 Innovation Hub needs image optimization as it can save up to 134.1 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 159.9 kB
  • After minification 159.9 kB
  • After compression 149.2 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

-33%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 40.1 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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. Theinnovationhub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.3 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (42%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Innovation Hub. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theinnovationhub.com

theinnovationhub.com

465 ms

theinnovationhub.com

theinnovationhub.com

248 ms

www.theinnovationhub.com

www.theinnovationhub.com

685 ms

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js

104 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

34 ms

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102 ms

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101 ms

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232 ms

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62 ms

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75 ms

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386 ms

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386 ms

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388 ms

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386 ms

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386 ms

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386 ms

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529 ms

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518 ms

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518 ms

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96 ms

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583 ms

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522 ms

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521 ms

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698 ms

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696 ms

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700 ms

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102 ms

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60 ms

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133 ms

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159 ms

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119 ms

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122 ms

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40 ms

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43 ms

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107 ms

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43 ms

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233 ms

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232 ms

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410 ms

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588 ms

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704 ms

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596 ms

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652 ms

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768 ms

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888 ms

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775 ms

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837 ms

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885 ms

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952 ms

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958 ms

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1127 ms

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1140 ms

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1279 ms

Accessibility Review

theinnovationhub.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

theinnovationhub.com best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

theinnovationhub.com SEO score

83

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

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 Theinnovationhub.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 Theinnovationhub.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

theinnovationhub.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Innovation Hub. 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: