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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

davebenner.com

Dave Benner's Web Page - Web site for Dave Benner, Author and Historian

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

478 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

524 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Davebenner.com page load time and found that the first response time was 478 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

davebenner.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.977

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.davebenner.com

478 ms

style.min.css

64 ms

utilities.css

75 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

59 ms

css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Davebenner.com, 10% (6 requests) were made to Widget.sndcdn.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (559 ms) relates to the external source Dl.dropboxusercontent.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.7 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Davebenner.com main page is 2.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 63.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 142.5 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Dave Benner images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 90.9 kB

  • Original 196.1 kB
  • After minification 178.3 kB
  • After compression 105.2 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 90.9 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 143.2 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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. Davebenner.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (67%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dave Benner. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.davebenner.com

www.davebenner.com

478 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

64 ms

utilities.css

utilities.css

75 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

ctf-styles.min.css

59 ms

css

css

24 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

56 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

75 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

71 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

81 ms

style-shortcodes.css

style-shortcodes.css

92 ms

style.css

style.css

83 ms

style-portfolio.css

style-portfolio.css

90 ms

style-responsive.css

style-responsive.css

91 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

110 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

101 ms

utilities.js

utilities.js

102 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

127 ms

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jquery.videoBG.js

126 ms

jquery.tweetscroll.js

jquery.tweetscroll.js

129 ms

submit.js

submit.js

490 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

153 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

156 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

155 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

156 ms

waypoints-sticky.min.js

waypoints-sticky.min.js

156 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

157 ms

main-frontend.js

main-frontend.js

158 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

158 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

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158 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

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159 ms

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159 ms

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173 ms

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jquery.knob.js

173 ms

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190 ms

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50 ms

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42 ms

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43 ms

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71 ms

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72 ms

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118 ms

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58 ms

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Accessibility Review

davebenner.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

davebenner.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

davebenner.com SEO score

84

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

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 Davebenner.com 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 Davebenner.com 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

davebenner.com

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