Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thevanillabeanblog.com

The Vanilla Bean Blog by Sarah Kieffer | Baking Recipes

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

thevanillabeanblog.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thevanillabeanblog.com homepage info - get ready to check The Vanilla Bean Blog best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about thevanillabeanblog.com

The Vanilla Bean Blog is the popular baking blog from cookbook author Sarah Kieffer with lots of delicious cookies, cakes and dessert recipes for the home baker.

Visit thevanillabeanblog.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Thevanillabeanblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 5.2 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

thevanillabeanblog.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thevanillabeanblog.com

1358 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

43 ms

style.min.css

76 ms

fbstyle.css

78 ms

sb-instagram.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (93 requests) were addressed to the original Thevanillabeanblog.com, 9% (10 requests) were made to Graph.facebook.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thevanillabeanblog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (37%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Thevanillabeanblog.com main page is 5.5 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. 85% 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 134.9 kB
  • After minification 132.5 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 108.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB

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 Vanilla Bean Blog needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 248.7 kB

  • Original 369.4 kB
  • After minification 353.8 kB
  • After compression 120.7 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 248.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 447.4 kB

  • Original 528.9 kB
  • After minification 478.2 kB
  • After compression 81.5 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. Thevanillabeanblog.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 447.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (39%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

65

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Vanilla Bean Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thevanillabeanblog.com accessibility score

63

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

thevanillabeanblog.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

thevanillabeanblog.com SEO score

90

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

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 Thevanillabeanblog.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 Thevanillabeanblog.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 description is not detected on the main page of The Vanilla Bean Blog. 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: