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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

sobran.com

SOBRAN'S --- THE REAL NEWS OF THE MONTH -- Home Page

Page Load Speed

540 ms in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

189 ms

Page Rendered

257 ms

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About Website

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SOBRAN'S is the monthly newsletter written by Joe Sobran. Sobran, a syndicated columnist for more than 20 years, is also an author and lecturer. Often compared to G.K. Chesterton and H.L. Mencken, Sob...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sobran.com page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 446 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sobran.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.174

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sobran.com

94 ms

logo.gif

20 ms

spacer.gif

21 ms

smallersobran.jpg

92 ms

specials-l.gif

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Sobran.com, 29% (2 requests) were made to Paypal.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (94 ms) belongs to the original domain Sobran.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.0 kB (69%)

Content Size

23.3 kB

After Optimization

7.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Sobran.com main page is 23.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 18.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 18.9 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.0 kB, which is 37% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 15.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 582 B

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Obviously, SOBRAN needs image optimization as it can save up to 582 B or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SOBRAN. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

sobran.com

sobran.com

94 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

20 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

21 ms

smallersobran.jpg

smallersobran.jpg

92 ms

specials-l.gif

specials-l.gif

30 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

73 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

66 ms

Accessibility Review

sobran.com accessibility score

57

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sobran.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

sobran.com SEO score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sobran.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sobran.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

sobran.com

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