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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

nickschwab.com

Nick Schwab - Web Developer, Alexa Champion, Techstars Alumni

Page Load Speed

987 ms in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

428 ms

Page Rendered

474 ms

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About Website

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Nick Schwab is a software engineer specializing in web development, database administration, and building Amazon Alexa Skills.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nickschwab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 902 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nickschwab.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nickschwab.com

85 ms

nickschwab.com

82 ms

css

33 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

98 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Nickschwab.com, 18% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 9% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (116 ms) belongs to the original domain Nickschwab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.8 kB (1%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nickschwab.com main page is 1.7 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 7.1 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 5.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Nick Schwab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 51 B

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 16 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Nickschwab.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (38%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nick Schwab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nickschwab.com

nickschwab.com

85 ms

nickschwab.com

nickschwab.com

82 ms

css

css

33 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

98 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

jquery.backstretch.min.js

116 ms

index.css

index.css

112 ms

home.js

home.js

91 ms

ga.js

ga.js

26 ms

bg2_wide.jpg

bg2_wide.jpg

82 ms

TK3_WkUHHAIjg75cFRf3bXL8LICs169vsUZiYw.woff

TK3_WkUHHAIjg75cFRf3bXL8LICs169vsUZiYw.woff

47 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

Accessibility Review

nickschwab.com accessibility score

65

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

Best Practices

nickschwab.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

nickschwab.com SEO score

54

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

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 Nickschwab.com 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 Nickschwab.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 description is not detected on the main page of Nick Schwab. 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: