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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

mirtle.blogspot.ca

james mirtle - A hockey journalist's blog

Page Load Speed

25.4 sec in total

First Response

288 ms

Resources Loaded

22.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

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About Website

Visit mirtle.blogspot.ca now to see the best up-to-date Mirtle Blog Spot content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mirtle.blogspot.ca

A hockey blog by Toronto-based sportswriter James Mirtle about the ins and outs of the National Hockey League and the game of hockey.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mirtle.blogspot.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 288 ms and then it took 25.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mirtle.blogspot.ca performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mirtle.blogspot.ca

288 ms

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326 ms

authorization.css

413 ms

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372 ms

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373 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mirtle.blogspot.ca, 12% (13 requests) were made to Blogblog.com and 10% (11 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Myblahg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

889.3 kB

After Optimization

628.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mirtle.blogspot.ca main page is 889.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 559.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 146.4 kB

  • Original 183.7 kB
  • After minification 176.3 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 146.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 559.8 kB
  • After minification 508.3 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. Mirtle Blog Spot images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 145.0 kB
  • After minification 143.1 kB
  • After compression 82.7 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 62.3 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 386 B

  • Original 840 B
  • After minification 828 B
  • After compression 454 B

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. Mirtle.blogspot.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 386 B or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (63%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mirtle Blog Spot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

mirtle.blogspot.ca accessibility score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

mirtle.blogspot.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

SEO Factors

mirtle.blogspot.ca SEO score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Mirtle.blogspot.ca 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 Mirtle.blogspot.ca 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

mirtle.blogspot.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mirtle Blog Spot. 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: