Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

ethanbusby.com

Ethan C. Busby – Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, specializing in political psychology, extremism, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and quantitative met...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ethanbusby.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 3.2 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

ethanbusby.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ethanbusby.com

11 ms

ethanbusby.com

215 ms

webfont.js

167 ms

195 ms

style.css

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Ethanbusby.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to S0.wp.com and 15% (6 requests) were made to S1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Ethanbusbydotcom.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.3 kB (1%)

Content Size

8.8 MB

After Optimization

8.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Ethanbusby.com main page is 8.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 51.6 kB

  • Original 71.5 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 51.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.6 MB
  • After minification 8.6 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. Ethan Busby images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 274 B

  • Original 119.3 kB
  • After minification 119.3 kB
  • After compression 119.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 435 B

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 58.0 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. Ethanbusby.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (67%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ethan Busby. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ethanbusby.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

ethanbusby.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

SEO Factors

ethanbusby.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Ethanbusby.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 Ethanbusby.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 Ethan Busby. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: