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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

jamesalexanderthom.com

jamesthom

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

808 ms

Page Rendered

211 ms

jamesalexanderthom.com screenshot

About Website

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James Alexander Thom author of Panther in the Sky, Follow the River, Long Knife, Red Heart, Sign-Talker, Staying Out of Hell, Spectator Sport, From Sea to Shining Sea, Spirit of the Place Indiana Hill...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jamesalexanderthom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jamesalexanderthom.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.jamesalexanderthom.com

90 ms

font_styles_ns4.css

44 ms

font_styles.css

34 ms

FormValidation.js

29 ms

Logo1.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Jamesalexanderthom.com, 28% (14 requests) were made to Homestead.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to T8.prnx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (282 ms) belongs to the original domain Jamesalexanderthom.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 88.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

837.6 kB

After Optimization

748.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Jamesalexanderthom.com main page is 837.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 741.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 37.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 741.2 kB
  • After minification 705.7 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. Jamesalexanderthom images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 52.1 kB
  • After minification 51.6 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 15.7 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (22%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jamesalexanderthom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.jamesalexanderthom.com

www.jamesalexanderthom.com

90 ms

font_styles_ns4.css

font_styles_ns4.css

44 ms

font_styles.css

font_styles.css

34 ms

FormValidation.js

FormValidation.js

29 ms

Logo1.js

Logo1.js

36 ms

footer.js

footer.js

37 ms

ExternalRedirect.dll

ExternalRedirect.dll

37 ms

seal.gif

seal.gif

35 ms

Parchment_Button_2.gif

Parchment_Button_2.gif

28 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

53 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

29 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

23 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

26 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

53 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

49 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

53 ms

shapes.dll

shapes.dll

53 ms

QS_icon_default_24x24.gif

QS_icon_default_24x24.gif

126 ms

Thanksgiving_Sidebar_1.gif

Thanksgiving_Sidebar_1.gif

18 ms

thomform.jpg

thomform.jpg

156 ms

followrs.jpg

followrs.jpg

88 ms

knifesm.jpg

knifesm.jpg

130 ms

heartsm.jpg

heartsm.jpg

121 ms

tecumsm.jpg

tecumsm.jpg

101 ms

placesm.jpg

placesm.jpg

67 ms

seasm.jpg

seasm.jpg

182 ms

sportsm.jpg

sportsm.jpg

158 ms

talkersm.jpg

talkersm.jpg

153 ms

hellsm.jpg

hellsm.jpg

178 ms

writingsm.jpg

writingsm.jpg

151 ms

HitCounter.dll

HitCounter.dll

169 ms

childsm.jpg

childsm.jpg

185 ms

thomdksm.jpg

thomdksm.jpg

198 ms

Warrior_op_469x600.jpg

Warrior_op_469x600.jpg

221 ms

tp.gif

tp.gif

185 ms

kocumlg.jpg

kocumlg.jpg

282 ms

index~~element63.jpg

index~~element63.jpg

211 ms

index~~element65.jpg

index~~element65.jpg

213 ms

index~~element82.gif

index~~element82.gif

210 ms

index~~element83.jpg

index~~element83.jpg

221 ms

index~~element85.jpg

index~~element85.jpg

252 ms

logo_Logo1A.jpg

logo_Logo1A.jpg

240 ms

site_statistics.ffhtml

site_statistics.ffhtml

228 ms

HitCounter.dll

HitCounter.dll

28 ms

ibc90006.js

ibc90006.js

220 ms

tc.js

tc.js

221 ms

prnx_track.js

prnx_track.js

17 ms

jQuery-1.6.3.min.js

jQuery-1.6.3.min.js

39 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

18 ms

t.asp

t.asp

171 ms

Accessibility Review

jamesalexanderthom.com accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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

jamesalexanderthom.com best practices score

42

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

jamesalexanderthom.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Jamesalexanderthom.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 Jamesalexanderthom.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

jamesalexanderthom.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Jamesalexanderthom. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: