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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

joelkotkin.com

Home - Joel Kotkin

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

joelkotkin.com screenshot

About Website

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

Described by NY Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Joelkotkin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 3 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

joelkotkin.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

joelkotkin.com

1338 ms

aggregator.css

40 ms

node.css

41 ms

defaults.css

42 ms

system.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Joelkotkin.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Joelkotkin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 445.8 kB (65%)

Content Size

683.7 kB

After Optimization

238.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Joelkotkin.com main page is 683.7 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. CSS take 309.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 47.5 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.1 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 36.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 70.7 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. Joel Kotkin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 153.4 kB

  • Original 255.0 kB
  • After minification 247.4 kB
  • After compression 101.5 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 153.4 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 254.3 kB

  • Original 309.3 kB
  • After minification 290.6 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Joelkotkin.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 254.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (71%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Joel Kotkin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

joelkotkin.com

joelkotkin.com

1338 ms

aggregator.css

aggregator.css

40 ms

node.css

node.css

41 ms

defaults.css

defaults.css

42 ms

system.css

system.css

42 ms

system-menus.css

system-menus.css

45 ms

user.css

user.css

56 ms

content-module.css

content-module.css

57 ms

date.css

date.css

59 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

59 ms

timeentry.css

timeentry.css

61 ms

filefield.css

filefield.css

73 ms

calendar.css

calendar.css

74 ms

farbtastic.css

farbtastic.css

76 ms

fieldgroup.css

fieldgroup.css

77 ms

layout.css

layout.css

78 ms

graphics.css

graphics.css

80 ms

typography.css

typography.css

88 ms

links.css

links.css

91 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

132 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

94 ms

googleanalytics.js

googleanalytics.js

39 ms

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213 ms

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34 ms

feed-icon32x32.png

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76 ms

ga.js

ga.js

74 ms

body11.gif

body11.gif

60 ms

menu-leaf.png

menu-leaf.png

60 ms

rotate.php

rotate.php

132 ms

slinks.gif

slinks.gif

70 ms

user.gif

user.gif

69 ms

clock.gif

clock.gif

65 ms

readmore.gif

readmore.gif

68 ms

bgblock.gif

bgblock.gif

67 ms

leaf.gif

leaf.gif

106 ms

thecity.jpg

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108 ms

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166 ms

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110 ms

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25 ms

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79 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

112 ms

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68 ms

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ad_status.js

78 ms

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73 ms

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83 ms

Accessibility Review

joelkotkin.com accessibility score

79

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

joelkotkin.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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

joelkotkin.com SEO score

82

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

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

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 Joelkotkin.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 Joelkotkin.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

joelkotkin.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Joel Kotkin. 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: