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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

thewebahead.net

The Web Ahead

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

417 ms

Resources Loaded

595 ms

Page Rendered

284 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewebahead.net page load time and found that the first response time was 417 ms and then it took 879 ms 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

thewebahead.net performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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417 ms

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17 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Thewebahead.net, 7% (2 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (417 ms) belongs to the original domain Thewebahead.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 82.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

558.2 kB

After Optimization

475.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thewebahead.net main page is 558.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 378.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 60.9 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 41.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 378.8 kB
  • After minification 368.9 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 Web Ahead images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 86.0 kB
  • After minification 85.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. Thewebahead.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (41%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Web Ahead. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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417 ms

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18 ms

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Accessibility Review

thewebahead.net accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thewebahead.net best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thewebahead.net SEO score

88

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 Thewebahead.net 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 Thewebahead.net 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

thewebahead.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Web Ahead. 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: