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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 95% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    82% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    61% of websites

christophercotton.ca

Christopher Cotton – Department of Economics, Queen's University

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

516 ms

Resources Loaded

942 ms

Page Rendered

322 ms

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About Website

Visit christophercotton.ca now to see the best up-to-date Christopher Cotton content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about christophercotton.ca

Christopher CottonProfessor and Jarislowsky-Deutsch Chair in Economic & Financial Policy Queen’s Universitycotton@econ.queensu.ca I am a Professor in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Christophercotton.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 516 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

christophercotton.ca performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,090 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

christophercotton.ca

516 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

235 ms

157 ms

198 ms

css

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Christophercotton.ca, 26% (7 requests) were made to S0.wp.com and 15% (4 requests) were made to S1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (516 ms) belongs to the original domain Christophercotton.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.0 kB (23%)

Content Size

213.0 kB

After Optimization

164.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Christophercotton.ca main page is 213.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 121.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 47.2 kB

  • Original 64.6 kB
  • After minification 62.3 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 47.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 121.2 kB
  • After minification 121.2 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. Christopher Cotton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 178 B

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. Christophercotton.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (67%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Christopher Cotton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

christophercotton.ca

christophercotton.ca

516 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

235 ms

157 ms

198 ms

css

css

212 ms

219 ms

196 ms

176 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

125 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

185 ms

191 ms

225 ms

w.js

w.js

147 ms

bilmur.min.js

bilmur.min.js

85 ms

global-print.css

global-print.css

55 ms

20180815-chris-cotton-6-2-1.jpg

20180815-chris-cotton-6-2-1.jpg

161 ms

wpcom-gray-white.png

wpcom-gray-white.png

53 ms

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12 ms

social-logos.eot

social-logos.eot

12 ms

g.gif

g.gif

27 ms

hovercard.min.css

hovercard.min.css

17 ms

services.min.css

services.min.css

18 ms

remote-login.php

remote-login.php

80 ms

g.gif

g.gif

25 ms

g.gif

g.gif

24 ms

actionbar.css

actionbar.css

2 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

17 ms

Accessibility Review

christophercotton.ca 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

christophercotton.ca 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

christophercotton.ca SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Christophercotton.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 Christophercotton.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

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