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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

gordonstoolsblog.com

Gordon's Tools Blog - Tool Reviews, How To, DIY Tips and Tricks

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

650 ms

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About Website

Visit gordonstoolsblog.com now to see the best up-to-date Gordon S Tools Blog content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gordonstoolsblog.com

Reviews and recommendations of the best tools, gear, and wear for every level of DIY and Pro workers. Useful tips and tricks, ratings, comparisons, and much more from Paul Gordon

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gordonstoolsblog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gordonstoolsblog.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gordonstoolsblog.com

46 ms

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556 ms

blocks.style.build.css

359 ms

style.css

363 ms

style.min.css

366 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Gordonstoolsblog.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Images.dmca.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Gordonstoolsblog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

508.1 kB

After Optimization

406.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gordonstoolsblog.com main page is 508.1 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. Images take 241.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 120.9 kB
  • After minification 119.8 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. 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 96.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 241.4 kB
  • After minification 240.4 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. Gordon S Tools Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 710 B

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 67.6 kB
  • After compression 66.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 74.6 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. Gordonstoolsblog.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (30%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gordon S Tools Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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46 ms

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556 ms

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359 ms

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363 ms

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360 ms

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352 ms

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357 ms

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711 ms

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701 ms

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1070 ms

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1059 ms

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677 ms

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678 ms

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700 ms

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1017 ms

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1401 ms

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730 ms

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728 ms

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368 ms

Accessibility Review

gordonstoolsblog.com accessibility score

98

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

gordonstoolsblog.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

gordonstoolsblog.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 Gordonstoolsblog.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 Gordonstoolsblog.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

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