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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

michigangaijin.com

Michigan Gaijin

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

299 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

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About Website

Welcome to michigangaijin.com homepage info - get ready to check Michigan Gaijin best content right away, or after learning these important things about michigangaijin.com

Welcome to Michigan Gaijin. A site about Japan, anime, conventions and the personal musings of a Michigander trying to bring a slice of Japan home.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Michigangaijin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 299 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

michigangaijin.com performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.303

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

michigangaijin.com

299 ms

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539 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

83 ms

style.min.css

187 ms

book-review-public.min.css

260 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Michigangaijin.com, 12% (8 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 501.9 kB (58%)

Content Size

863.0 kB

After Optimization

361.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Michigangaijin.com main page is 863.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 361.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 157.2 kB

  • Original 202.0 kB
  • After minification 194.6 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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 157.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 141.5 kB
  • After minification 141.5 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. Michigan Gaijin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 158.1 kB
  • After minification 156.9 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 56.5 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 288.2 kB

  • Original 361.3 kB
  • After minification 336.9 kB
  • After compression 73.2 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. Michigangaijin.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 288.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (70%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Michigan Gaijin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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299 ms

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539 ms

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83 ms

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187 ms

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260 ms

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Accessibility Review

michigangaijin.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

michigangaijin.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

michigangaijin.com SEO score

91

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

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 Michigangaijin.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 Michigangaijin.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

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