Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

benfrancisco.net

Bread & Magic – The blog of Ben Francisco, a writer and fan of weird fictions

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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The blog of Ben Francisco, a writer and fan of weird fictions

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Key Findings

We analyzed Benfrancisco.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec 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

benfrancisco.net performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

benfrancisco.net

1354 ms

style.css

200 ms

jquery.js

343 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

137 ms

menu.js

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Benfrancisco.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Benfrancisco.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.4 kB (53%)

Content Size

314.0 kB

After Optimization

147.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Benfrancisco.net main page is 314.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 138.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 36.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 83.4 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, Ben Francisco needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 93.9 kB

  • Original 138.7 kB
  • After minification 138.6 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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 93.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Benfrancisco.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (25%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ben Francisco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

benfrancisco.net accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

benfrancisco.net 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

SEO Factors

benfrancisco.net SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

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

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