Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

valuesleuths.com

Value Sleuths - Solving The Personal Finance Mystery

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Value Sleuths content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about valuesleuths.com

Value Sleuths is a personal finance website that uses real-world experience and evidence to help everyday people make wise money decisions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Valuesleuths.com page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

valuesleuths.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

valuesleuths.com

141 ms

valuesleuths.com

194 ms

styles.min.css

57 ms

style.min.css

62 ms

style.css

172 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Valuesleuths.com, 8% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (406 ms) belongs to the original domain Valuesleuths.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.1 kB (19%)

Content Size

779.8 kB

After Optimization

629.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Valuesleuths.com main page is 779.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 649.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 109.5 kB

  • Original 130.5 kB
  • After minification 126.2 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 109.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 649.3 kB
  • After minification 608.6 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. Value Sleuths images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (63%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Value Sleuths. 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 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

valuesleuths.com accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

valuesleuths.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

valuesleuths.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Valuesleuths.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 Valuesleuths.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 Value Sleuths. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: