Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

thezodiac.com

The Zodiac Master Home Page - Western Tropical Astrology

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

830 ms

Page Rendered

95 ms

thezodiac.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thezodiac.com page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 925 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

thezodiac.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thezodiac.com

158 ms

thezodiac.com

313 ms

instant.js

281 ms

plusone.js

21 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Thezodiac.com, 22% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 11% (1 request) were made to S.swiftypecdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (313 ms) belongs to the original domain Thezodiac.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

135.7 kB

After Optimization

120.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Thezodiac.com main page is 135.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 86.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 4.3 kB, which is 26% 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 13.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 37 B

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 32.6 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 Zodiac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 86.6 kB
  • After minification 86.6 kB
  • After compression 84.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (43%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

4

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

Accessibility Review

thezodiac.com accessibility score

49

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

thezodiac.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

SEO Factors

thezodiac.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thezodiac.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thezodiac.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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