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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

thespec.com

thespec.com

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thespec.com page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thespec.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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69 ms

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179 ms

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Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Thespec.com, 50% (59 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (687 ms) relates to the external source Api.segment.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 582.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thespec.com main page is 1.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 675.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 548.4 kB

  • Original 612.1 kB
  • After minification 504.0 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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 108.0 kB, which is 18% 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 548.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 675.0 kB
  • After minification 675.0 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. Thespec images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 485.4 kB
  • After minification 485.3 kB
  • After compression 462.4 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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. Thespec.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (53%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thespec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thespec.com accessibility score

75

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

thespec.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thespec.com SEO score

75

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thespec.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 Thespec.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

thespec.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Thespec. 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: