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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thesmelab.com

The SME Lab in Stockport - Small Business SEO, PPC & Web Design

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesmelab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesmelab.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesmelab.com

249 ms

www.thesmelab.com

617 ms

front.min.css

80 ms

et-divi-customizer-global.min.css

153 ms

front.min.js

237 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Thesmelab.com, 41% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (617 ms) belongs to the original domain Thesmelab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 156.2 kB (33%)

Content Size

474.5 kB

After Optimization

318.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesmelab.com main page is 474.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 161.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 134.6 kB

  • Original 161.8 kB
  • After minification 161.8 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 134.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 161.7 kB
  • After minification 161.7 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. The SME Lab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 128.0 kB
  • After minification 128.0 kB
  • After compression 110.9 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 17.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Thesmelab.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (64%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The SME Lab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thesmelab.com

thesmelab.com

249 ms

www.thesmelab.com

www.thesmelab.com

617 ms

front.min.css

front.min.css

80 ms

et-divi-customizer-global.min.css

et-divi-customizer-global.min.css

153 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

237 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

334 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

239 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

415 ms

common.js

common.js

253 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

249 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

59 ms

et-divi-dynamic-2319-late.css

et-divi-dynamic-2319-late.css

161 ms

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modules.woff

modules.woff

272 ms

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86 ms

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87 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

82 ms

Accessibility Review

thesmelab.com accessibility score

68

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

thesmelab.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

thesmelab.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 Thesmelab.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 Thesmelab.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

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