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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

alanpetersen.com

Alan Petersen - Author of Spy Thrillers & Crime Fiction Novels - Podcaster

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

937 ms

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About Website

Visit alanpetersen.com now to see the best up-to-date Alan Petersen content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about alanpetersen.com

Alan Petersen is a crime fiction and thriller writer of high-octane novels. He also hosts Meet the Thriller Author a podcast featuring author interviews.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alanpetersen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alanpetersen.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.327

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alanpetersen.com

198 ms

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1075 ms

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155 ms

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Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Alanpetersen.com, 15% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 13% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Alanpetersen.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 451.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alanpetersen.com main page is 6.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 170.8 kB

  • Original 207.6 kB
  • After minification 204.4 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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 170.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 108.3 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.6 MB

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. Alan Petersen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 75.4 kB

  • Original 474.4 kB
  • After minification 474.4 kB
  • After compression 399.0 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 75.4 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 96.8 kB

  • Original 124.5 kB
  • After minification 124.3 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Alanpetersen.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (58%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alan Petersen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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198 ms

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Accessibility Review

alanpetersen.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

alanpetersen.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

alanpetersen.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 Alanpetersen.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 Alanpetersen.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

alanpetersen.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Alan Petersen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: