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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

variantbank.org

UK Diplomacy Archive – Home of the UK Zine Archive and the Variant Bank

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

87 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Variantbank.org page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 2.2 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

variantbank.org performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

variantbank.org

77 ms

diplomacyzines.co.uk

310 ms

style.css

25 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

51 ms

mad2.gif

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Variantbank.org, 83% (5 requests) were made to Diplomacyzines.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (310 ms) relates to the external source Diplomacyzines.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.5 kB (72%)

Content Size

50.4 kB

After Optimization

14.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Variantbank.org main page is 50.4 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 44.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 34.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 775 B

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 775 B or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 731 B

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. Variantbank.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Variant Bank. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

variantbank.org

variantbank.org

77 ms

diplomacyzines.co.uk

diplomacyzines.co.uk

310 ms

style.css

style.css

25 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

51 ms

mad2.gif

mad2.gif

43 ms

mad2.gif

mad2.gif

46 ms

Accessibility Review

variantbank.org accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

variantbank.org best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

variantbank.org SEO score

93

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

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 Variantbank.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 Variantbank.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

variantbank.org

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