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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

alexledford.com

Alex Ledford

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

127 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexledford.com page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alexledford.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alexledford.com

170 ms

stylesheet

59 ms

cargo.jquery.package.js

191 ms

cargo.site.package.js

237 ms

cargo.tools.package.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Alexledford.com, 21% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Media.cargocollective.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (920 ms) relates to the external source Media.cargocollective.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.6 kB (76%)

Content Size

603.3 kB

After Optimization

143.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alexledford.com main page is 603.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 517.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 9.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 386.4 kB

  • Original 517.8 kB
  • After minification 407.8 kB
  • After compression 131.5 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 386.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 63.8 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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. Alexledford.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (44%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alex Ledford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alexledford.com

alexledford.com

170 ms

stylesheet

stylesheet

59 ms

cargo.jquery.package.js

cargo.jquery.package.js

191 ms

cargo.site.package.js

cargo.site.package.js

237 ms

cargo.tools.package.js

cargo.tools.package.js

113 ms

template.js

template.js

80 ms

globalstyle.css

globalstyle.css

118 ms

cargo.rail.package.js

cargo.rail.package.js

177 ms

rail.app.js

rail.app.js

120 ms

rail.jquery.js

rail.jquery.js

154 ms

rail.css

rail.css

162 ms

cooltext130583128633091.gif

cooltext130583128633091.gif

920 ms

loadingAnim.gif

loadingAnim.gif

76 ms

thumb_default.gif

thumb_default.gif

75 ms

ga.js

ga.js

74 ms

alexledford

alexledford

80 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

28 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

20 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

Accessibility Review

alexledford.com accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alexledford.com best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alexledford.com SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alexledford.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 Alexledford.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

alexledford.com

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