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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

twis.org

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast | The kickass science and technology radio show that delivers an irreverent look at the week in sci...

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

386 ms

twis.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Twis content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about twis.org

The kickass science and technology radio show that delivers an irreverent look at the week in science and technology.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Twis.org page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

twis.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

twis.org

98 ms

www.twis.org

291 ms

liveembed.js

178 ms

screen.css

128 ms

default.css

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Twis.org, 4% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) belongs to the original domain Twis.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 171.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Twis.org main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 72.9 kB

  • Original 93.4 kB
  • After minification 90.5 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 72.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 88.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 915.2 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. Twis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 571.7 kB
  • After minification 571.3 kB
  • After compression 565.3 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.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 72.6 kB
  • After minification 72.4 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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. Twis.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (68%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Twis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

twis.org

twis.org

98 ms

www.twis.org

www.twis.org

291 ms

liveembed.js

liveembed.js

178 ms

screen.css

screen.css

128 ms

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176 ms

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176 ms

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132 ms

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193 ms

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125 ms

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194 ms

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195 ms

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217 ms

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201 ms

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225 ms

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203 ms

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205 ms

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224 ms

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265 ms

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265 ms

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266 ms

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266 ms

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84 ms

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324 ms

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109 ms

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262 ms

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351 ms

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354 ms

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351 ms

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352 ms

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88 ms

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329 ms

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329 ms

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78 ms

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93 ms

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125 ms

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125 ms

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Accessibility Review

twis.org 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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

twis.org best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

twis.org SEO score

64

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Twis.org 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 Twis.org 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

twis.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Twis. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: