Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

tellmeastory.substack.com

Tell Me a Story Podcast | John Kremer | Substack

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

912 ms

Page Rendered

263 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Tell Me A Story Substack content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about tellmeastory.substack.com

73-year-old John Kremer reads a new story every podcast. He chooses stories that interest him and his wife. Some will be short stories. Some very short stories. Some episodic stories (where one story ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tellmeastory.substack.com page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tellmeastory.substack.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,130 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.134

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tellmeastory.substack.com

39 ms

tellmeastory.substack.com

211 ms

main.css

53 ms

https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7285b631-6915-4f73-aab9-344cd7436068_256x256.png

146 ms

https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7285b631-6915-4f73-aab9-344cd7436068_256x256.png

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Tellmeastory.substack.com, 72% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.substack.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (584 ms) relates to the external source Unpkg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 92.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

463.8 kB

After Optimization

371.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Tellmeastory.substack.com main page is 463.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 357.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 92.3 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 105.2 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 92.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 357.2 kB
  • After minification 357.2 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. Tell Me A Story Substack images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tell Me A Story Substack. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

tellmeastory.substack.com accessibility score

68

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

tellmeastory.substack.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

tellmeastory.substack.com SEO score

84

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tellmeastory.substack.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 Tellmeastory.substack.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 Tell Me A Story Substack. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: