Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

treading-lightly.com

Treading Lightly - Living sustainably and naturally

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Treading Lightly content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about treading-lightly.com

I believe in treading lightly on the Earth and my feet. I'm Mandy- a journalist, runner and active living blogger in the San Francisco Bay Area who hopes to inspire and support you on your journe...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Treading-lightly.com page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

treading-lightly.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.583

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

treading-lightly.com

199 ms

treading-lightly.com

433 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

137 ms

style.css

170 ms

style.min.css

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Treading-lightly.com, 2% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (478 ms) belongs to the original domain Treading-lightly.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Treading-lightly.com main page is 2.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 95.5 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 124.9 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 95.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Treading Lightly images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 77.7 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 21.2 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 14.4 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. Treading-lightly.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (24%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Treading Lightly. 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.

Accessibility Review

treading-lightly.com accessibility score

88

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

treading-lightly.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

treading-lightly.com SEO score

90

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

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 Treading-lightly.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 Treading-lightly.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 data is detected on the main page of Treading Lightly. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: