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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

kirk.is

kirk.is - kirk israel's commonplace and blog

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

921 ms

Page Rendered

712 ms

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About Website

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kirk.is provides daily general-interest and geeky links and quotes

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kirk.is page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kirk.is performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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73 ms

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357 ms

main.css

44 ms

blogallery.css

60 ms

kirkis_minigallery.js

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Kirk.is and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (424 ms) belongs to the original domain Kirk.is.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.3 kB (1%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kirk.is main page is 3.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 11.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Kirk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 4.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Kirk.is needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (12%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kirk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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73 ms

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357 ms

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44 ms

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60 ms

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61 ms

blogallery.js

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67 ms

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39 ms

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39 ms

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70 ms

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148 ms

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155 ms

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184 ms

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185 ms

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424 ms

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349 ms

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379 ms

Accessibility Review

kirk.is accessibility score

67

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.

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

kirk.is 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

kirk.is SEO score

85

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

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kirk.is 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 Kirk.is 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

kirk.is

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