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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

thredgold.com

Jeff Thredgold, CSP--Economic Futurist, Professional Speaker, Entertaining Economist

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

485 ms

Resources Loaded

784 ms

Page Rendered

108 ms

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About Website

Visit thredgold.com now to see the best up-to-date Thredgold content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thredgold.com

Economic futurist and professional speaker Jeff Thredgold is your expert guide to understanding today's challenging economy and financial markets...with a slice of optimism and a touch of humor.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thredgold.com page load time and found that the first response time was 485 ms and then it took 892 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

thredgold.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thredgold.com

485 ms

www.thredgold.com

144 ms

rollover.js

10 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

24 ms

urchin.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Thredgold.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (485 ms) belongs to the original domain Thredgold.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.2 kB (31%)

Content Size

129.1 kB

After Optimization

88.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thredgold.com main page is 129.1 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. Images take 76.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.7 kB, which is 37% 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 22.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 96 B

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 76.3 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. Thredgold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 17.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thredgold. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thredgold.com

thredgold.com

485 ms

www.thredgold.com

www.thredgold.com

144 ms

rollover.js

rollover.js

10 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

24 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

a_jefflogo1.gif

a_jefflogo1.gif

13 ms

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12 ms

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42 ms

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Home_HstripeDown.gif

36 ms

Testimonials_NstripeUp.gif

Testimonials_NstripeUp.gif

33 ms

Speaker_Info_NstripeUp.gif

Speaker_Info_NstripeUp.gif

34 ms

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Demo_Video_Clips_NstripeUp.gif

26 ms

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Speaking_Clients_NstripeUp.gif

27 ms

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39 ms

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43 ms

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51 ms

Jeff_s_Books_NstripeUp.gif

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48 ms

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Site_Map_NstripeUp.gif

48 ms

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a_Thredgold_Stacked125.gif

56 ms

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a_NSAlogo.gif

53 ms

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Top10-home.gif

59 ms

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2010headshot.jpg

62 ms

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61 ms

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66 ms

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66 ms

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Demo_Video_Clips_NRwhiteUp.gif

44 ms

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Speaking_Clients_NRwhiteUp.gif

48 ms

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Testimonials_NRwhiteUp.gif

46 ms

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Speaker_Info_NRwhiteUp.gif

45 ms

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Home_HRwhiteDown.gif

50 ms

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About_Us_NRwhiteUp.gif

44 ms

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Request_Info_NRwhiteUp.gif

45 ms

Jeff_s_Books_NRwhiteUp.gif

Jeff_s_Books_NRwhiteUp.gif

41 ms

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Site_Map_NRwhiteUp.gif

42 ms

Download_NRwhiteUp.gif

Download_NRwhiteUp.gif

41 ms

Accessibility Review

thredgold.com accessibility score

80

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thredgold.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

thredgold.com SEO score

67

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

Document uses plugins

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 Thredgold.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 Thredgold.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

thredgold.com

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