The sections below walk you through the Onik performance score. Our goal is to help you have a fast, reliable, and consistent website. A website only has one chance and 2.5 seconds to hold a visitor's attention. Let's dive in.
Response Time
Response time is the number of seconds it takes for the site's page to reach the visitor's browser. The fastest sites can do this in 0.025 seconds or less, but under 0.25 seconds is considered good. Spikes on this chart occur when your host, platform, or server get bogged down. Response times above 1 second need to be addressed as your site is likely misconfigured or underpowered.
Target: 0.25 seconds and lower
Page Speed Test
Google's PageSpeed Insights conducts a field test of your site to calculate a performance score out of 100. A score of 85 or higher is considered good. A score of 90 or higher is considered great.
First Contentful Paint
Average seconds
First Contentful Paint (FCP) is the time from when the page starts loading to when content first appears on the visitor's screen. Our aim is 1 second or less. 2 seconds or more and your site will feel sluggish and slow.
Largest Contentful Paint
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is the time from when the page starts loading to when the largest piece of content is shown on the visitor's screen. Usually, this is an image. A good score is 1.5 seconds or less. A score of 2.0 seconds or more and the visitor has already considered leaving.
Average seconds
Target: 1.5 seconds or less
Cumulative Layout Shift
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is the amount of unexpected layout shift of a page. A good score is 0.1 or less. A score of 0.25 or more and the visitor will be frustrated by the page moving around.
Average
Target: 0.1 or less. More than 0.25 is considered very poor.
Accessibility Audit
The accessibility audit score evaluates how well a web page adheres to accessibility best practices, ensuring inclusivity for users with disabilities. It covers factors like HTML usage, color contrast, and assistive technology compatibility. WCAG 2.2 Level AA is the target for most sites.
SEO
The SEO score assesses the technical SEO of a web page, focusing on best practices to improve search engine visibility. It evaluates aspects like metadata, structured data, link structure, and technical errors.
Best Practices
The Best Practices score evaluates the pages uses modern web development standards, and does not use discontinued or common bad practices.