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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

eddriscoll.com

Articles by Ed Driscoll – PJ Media

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eddriscoll.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eddriscoll.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,860 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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43 ms

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28 ms

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63 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eddriscoll.com, 40% (49 requests) were made to Media.townhall.com and 11% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (575 ms) relates to the external source Media.townhall.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 473.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eddriscoll.com main page is 3.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 104.7 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 114.4 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.1 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 104.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Ed Driscoll images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 368.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 796.8 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 368.8 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Eddriscoll.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (35%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

62

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ed Driscoll. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

eddriscoll.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

eddriscoll.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

eddriscoll.com SEO score

93

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

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 Eddriscoll.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 Eddriscoll.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

eddriscoll.com

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