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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

gretchenrubin.com

Gretchen Rubin | NYT Bestselling Author, Podcaster & Speaker

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

Welcome to gretchenrubin.com homepage info - get ready to check Gretchen Rubin best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about gretchenrubin.com

Meet Gretchen Rubin. New York Times bestselling author, podcaster, speaker, creator of The Four Tendencies framework, and explorer of happiness and good habits.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gretchenrubin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gretchenrubin.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,330 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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1215 ms

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43 ms

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Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (106 requests) were addressed to the original Gretchenrubin.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Gretchenrubin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 943.6 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gretchenrubin.com main page is 2.3 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 236.9 kB

  • Original 283.8 kB
  • After minification 268.7 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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 236.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Gretchen Rubin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 352.0 kB

  • Original 522.6 kB
  • After minification 460.6 kB
  • After compression 170.7 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 352.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 287.2 kB

  • Original 351.8 kB
  • After minification 292.8 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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. Gretchenrubin.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (46%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gretchen Rubin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

gretchenrubin.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

gretchenrubin.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

gretchenrubin.com SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Gretchenrubin.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 Gretchenrubin.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 Gretchen Rubin. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: