Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

litreactor.com

A community for writers & book lovers with online writing classes and writers' workshops | LitReactor

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

260 ms

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About Website

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LitReactor is a community for writers & book lovers featuring online writing classes, writers' workshops, and columns, articles, reviews and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Litreactor.com page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

litreactor.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

litreactor.com

113 ms

css_cf911c636f47a41e0ee62edd5f1753ae.css

29 ms

grid12-960.css

44 ms

js_f30a55e535bb4a40e5062d8921424205.js

63 ms

ga_social_tracking.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Litreactor.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (786 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 673.7 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

934.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Litreactor.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 706.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 109.9 kB

  • Original 138.6 kB
  • After minification 131.6 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 109.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 706.9 kB
  • After minification 674.2 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. Lit Reactor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 406.3 kB

  • Original 611.5 kB
  • After minification 554.9 kB
  • After compression 205.2 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 406.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 124.9 kB

  • Original 151.5 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. Litreactor.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 124.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (40%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lit Reactor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

litreactor.com accessibility score

74

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.

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

litreactor.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

litreactor.com SEO score

71

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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