Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

apostrophe.guide

The Apostrophe Guide | A quick guide to the apostrophe

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

476 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

apostrophe.guide screenshot

About Website

Welcome to apostrophe.guide homepage info - get ready to check Apostrophe best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about apostrophe.guide

An quick and simple guide to the apostrophe, covering how to use the apostrophe and the rules on using it. Featuring plenty of examples.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apostrophe.guide page load time and found that the first response time was 476 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apostrophe.guide performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value41,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.314

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value55.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apostrophe.guide

476 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

193 ms

style.min.css

241 ms

front_end_style.css

215 ms

dashicons.min.css

355 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Apostrophe.guide, 13% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source 1.gravatar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 146.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

353.0 kB

After Optimization

206.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Apostrophe.guide main page is 353.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 157.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 123.1 kB

  • Original 157.6 kB
  • After minification 153.4 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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. 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 123.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 27.8 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, Apostrophe needs image optimization as it can save up to 16.3 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 783 B

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 92.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 58.0 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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. Apostrophe.guide needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (54%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apostrophe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apostrophe.guide accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

apostrophe.guide best practices score

83

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

apostrophe.guide SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    '; BLOGINFO( 'CHARSET' ); PRINT '

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apostrophe.guide 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 Apostrophe.guide main page’s claimed encoding is '; bloginfo( 'charset' ); print '. 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

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