Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

poet.us

Fascinating Poetry | Thomas Collins McGowan

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Poet.us page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

poet.us performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

poet.us

174 ms

ipower_csscomponent.css

4163 ms

rekicker.css

104 ms

87ae207201c55b84c5270851159260e1.1

97 ms

dropdown-navigation.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Poet.us, 95% (18 requests) were made to Ipower.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source Ipower.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.7 kB (72%)

Content Size

151.9 kB

After Optimization

43.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Poet.us main page is 151.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 66.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 13.4 kB
  • After minification 13.3 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 10.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 19.2 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. Obviously, Poet needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 46.2 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 37.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 54.7 kB

  • Original 66.7 kB
  • After minification 55.0 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Poet.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Poet. 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.

Accessibility Review

poet.us accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

poet.us best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

poet.us SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Poet.us 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 Poet.us main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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