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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

davidvann.com

Author David Vann

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

659 ms

Page Rendered

150 ms

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About Website

Welcome to davidvann.com homepage info - get ready to check David Vann best content right away, or after learning these important things about davidvann.com

Published in 23 languages, David Vann's internationally-bestselling books have won 14 prizes, including best foreign novel in France and Spain, and appeared on 83 Best Books of the Year lists in ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Davidvann.com page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 809 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

davidvann.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.441

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

davidvann.com

272 ms

87 ms

css

118 ms

style.css

95 ms

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Davidvann.com, 21% (7 requests) were made to S2.wp.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to S1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (272 ms) belongs to the original domain Davidvann.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 271.8 kB (65%)

Content Size

417.7 kB

After Optimization

145.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Davidvann.com main page is 417.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 315.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 16.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 32.9 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. David Vann images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 221.9 kB

  • Original 315.8 kB
  • After minification 264.1 kB
  • After compression 93.9 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 221.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 44.9 kB
  • After minification 42.3 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. Davidvann.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (58%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of David Vann. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

davidvann.com

davidvann.com

272 ms

87 ms

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118 ms

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95 ms

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93 ms

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92 ms

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97 ms

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90 ms

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104 ms

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66 ms

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20 ms

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220 ms

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60 ms

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66 ms

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96 ms

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33 ms

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57 ms

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60 ms

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70 ms

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72 ms

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Noticons.svg

29 ms

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8 ms

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29 ms

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36 ms

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39 ms

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28 ms

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22 ms

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23 ms

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34 ms

Accessibility Review

davidvann.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

davidvann.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

davidvann.com SEO score

93

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

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 Davidvann.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 Davidvann.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

davidvann.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of David Vann. 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: