Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

sharmashields.com

About the author Sharma Shields, novelist & short story writer

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

sharmashields.com screenshot

About Website

Visit sharmashields.com now to see the best up-to-date Sharma Shields content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sharmashields.com

This is the website of Sharma Shields, author of two novels, The Cassandra and The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac, and a short story collection, Favorite Monster. She is the winner of the 2016 Washington ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sharmashields.com page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sharmashields.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sharmashields.com

121 ms

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38 ms

css2

252 ms

legacy.js

93 ms

modern.js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Sharmashields.com, 44% (20 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 22% (10 requests) were made to Assets.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Static1.squarespace.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.4 kB (59%)

Content Size

108.3 kB

After Optimization

43.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Sharmashields.com main page is 108.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 81.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 81.4 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 63.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 507 B

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (61%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sharma Shields. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sharmashields.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

sharmashields.com 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

sharmashields.com SEO score

100

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

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 Sharmashields.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 Sharmashields.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 Sharma Shields. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: