Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

elenabowes.com

Elena Bowes - New York-London design & culture writer of a certain vintage looking for meaning and wholeness in lifeElena Bowes

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

257 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

817 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elenabowes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 257 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elenabowes.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,090 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

elenabowes.com

257 ms

elenabowes.com

1345 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

171 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

302 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

418 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Elenabowes.com, 17% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to I1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Elenabowes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 380.7 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

879.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Elenabowes.com main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 758.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 59.1 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 45.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 758.3 kB
  • After minification 752.1 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. Elena Bowes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 176.7 kB

  • Original 261.7 kB
  • After minification 223.0 kB
  • After compression 85.1 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 176.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 152.0 kB

  • Original 180.8 kB
  • After minification 179.8 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Elenabowes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 152.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (58%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elena Bowes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

elenabowes.com accessibility score

75

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

elenabowes.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

elenabowes.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Elenabowes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Elenabowes.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

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