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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 70% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

michaelthorn.net

Michael E. Thorn | Where Pop Culture meets Religion, Psychology and Canadian Politics: an academic blog from a PhDer

Page Load Speed

25.2 sec in total

First Response

864 ms

Resources Loaded

21.3 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Michaelthorn.net page load time and found that the first response time was 864 ms and then it took 24.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

michaelthorn.net performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

michaelthorn.net

864 ms

style.css

90 ms

120 ms

128 ms

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Michaelthorn.net, 12% (24 requests) were made to S.pubmine.com and 10% (20 requests) were made to Usersync.gumgum.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Ssl-market-east.smrtb.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

449.3 kB

After Optimization

362.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Michaelthorn.net main page is 449.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 285.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 84.1 kB

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 108.0 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 84.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 347 B

  • Original 285.4 kB
  • After minification 285.0 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. Michael Thorn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 45.6 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 183 B

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Michaelthorn.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 142 (77%)

Requests Now

185

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 185 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Michael Thorn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

michaelthorn.net accessibility score

88

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

michaelthorn.net best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

michaelthorn.net SEO score

64

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

Links are not crawlable

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 Michaelthorn.net 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 Michaelthorn.net 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

michaelthorn.net

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