Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

craiglawrence.co

Craig Lawrence - Author of thrillers and other books

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

190 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Craig Lawrence content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about craiglawrence.co

Home page of Craig Lawrence, best-selling author of Gurkha action adventure thrillers, Gurkha histories and books about strategy and leadership.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craiglawrence.co page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

craiglawrence.co performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,700 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

craiglawrencew1.godaddysites.com

180 ms

css

212 ms

site.css

334 ms

duel.js

198 ms

addthis_widget.js

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Craiglawrence.co, 20% (13 requests) were made to Img1.wsimg.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Nebula.wsimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 785.3 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Craiglawrence.co main page is 2.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 94.8 kB

  • Original 121.6 kB
  • After minification 121.5 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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 94.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB

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. Craig Lawrence images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 272.7 kB

  • Original 520.1 kB
  • After minification 519.9 kB
  • After compression 247.3 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 272.7 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 410.8 kB

  • Original 488.1 kB
  • After minification 487.9 kB
  • After compression 77.3 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. Craiglawrence.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 410.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (42%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craig Lawrence. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

craiglawrence.co accessibility score

90

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

craiglawrence.co best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

craiglawrence.co SEO score

69

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

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 Craiglawrence.co 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 Craiglawrence.co 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 data is detected on the main page of Craig Lawrence. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: