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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

alancolvin.com

Chevrolet, Corvette & Camaro Classic Cars: Products, Services & Information for Enthusiasts

Page Load Speed

23.6 sec in total

First Response

11.1 sec

Resources Loaded

12.3 sec

Page Rendered

340 ms

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About Website

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Alan Colvin – Author, Automotive Expert, All Around Car Guy

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alancolvin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11.1 sec and then it took 12.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alancolvin.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alancolvin.com

11050 ms

style.css

64 ms

layout.css

94 ms

custom.css

65 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Alancolvin.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Alancolvin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 532.4 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

812.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alancolvin.com main page is 1.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 622.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 46.0 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 34.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 28.3 kB

  • Original 622.1 kB
  • After minification 593.9 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. Alancolvin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 232.8 kB

  • Original 391.0 kB
  • After minification 388.2 kB
  • After compression 158.1 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 232.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 237.1 kB

  • Original 285.7 kB
  • After minification 274.3 kB
  • After compression 48.6 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. Alancolvin.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 237.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (59%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alancolvin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alancolvin.com

alancolvin.com

11050 ms

style.css

style.css

64 ms

layout.css

layout.css

94 ms

custom.css

custom.css

65 ms

css

css

25 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

180 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

65 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

78 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

fader.js

fader.js

78 ms

css

css

15 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

76 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

56 ms

bkgd-rep.png

bkgd-rep.png

259 ms

header-bkgd-rep.png

header-bkgd-rep.png

258 ms

header.png

header.png

258 ms

middle-bkgd-rep.png

middle-bkgd-rep.png

259 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

257 ms

sprite-32.png

sprite-32.png

304 ms

RHTablet2.png

RHTablet2.png

421 ms

sidebar-alan-pic.png

sidebar-alan-pic.png

494 ms

sidebar-facebook-logo.png

sidebar-facebook-logo.png

312 ms

sidebar-twitter-logo.png

sidebar-twitter-logo.png

309 ms

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search-bar-rep.png

310 ms

rss.png

rss.png

410 ms

footer-bkgd-rep.png

footer-bkgd-rep.png

413 ms

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footer-top-bkgd.png

413 ms

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383 ms

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sprite-24.png

463 ms

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274 ms

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29 ms

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51 ms

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52 ms

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74 ms

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74 ms

Accessibility Review

alancolvin.com accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alancolvin.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

alancolvin.com SEO score

57

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Alancolvin.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 Alancolvin.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

alancolvin.com

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