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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

variantpress.com

Variant Press: independent publisher specializing in technical yet fun topics

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

539 ms

Resources Loaded

939 ms

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Variantpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 539 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

variantpress.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

variantpress.com

539 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

55 ms

crayon.min.css

85 ms

style.min.css

92 ms

classic-themes.min.css

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Variantpress.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (539 ms) belongs to the original domain Variantpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

495.6 kB

After Optimization

447.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Variantpress.com main page is 495.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 358.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 25.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 358.8 kB
  • After minification 337.0 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. Variant Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 950 B

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 81.5 kB
  • After compression 80.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 276 B

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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. Variantpress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Variant Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

variantpress.com

variantpress.com

539 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

55 ms

crayon.min.css

crayon.min.css

85 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

92 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

96 ms

styles.css

styles.css

94 ms

style.css

style.css

95 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

137 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

127 ms

crayon.min.js

crayon.min.js

148 ms

modernizr.custom.min.js

modernizr.custom.min.js

135 ms

index.js

index.js

147 ms

index.js

index.js

147 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

172 ms

effect.min.js

effect.min.js

187 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

188 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

189 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

188 ms

headerbg.jpg

headerbg.jpg

64 ms

variantpress.png

variantpress.png

59 ms

homegrbg.png

homegrbg.png

73 ms

homebg.jpg

homebg.jpg

124 ms

homebk.png

homebk.png

132 ms

mainbg.jpg

mainbg.jpg

77 ms

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9780994031037_small-200x300.png

172 ms

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166 ms

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149 ms

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sophistication-200x300.jpg

140 ms

legojava-200x300.jpg

legojava-200x300.jpg

183 ms

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189 ms

lego2ed-200x300.jpg

lego2ed-200x300.jpg

217 ms

commodore-200x300.jpg

commodore-200x300.jpg

207 ms

Ubuntu-R-webfont.woff

Ubuntu-R-webfont.woff

168 ms

zocial-regular-webfont.woff

zocial-regular-webfont.woff

181 ms

Accessibility Review

variantpress.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

variantpress.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

variantpress.com SEO score

100

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 Variantpress.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 Variantpress.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

variantpress.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: