Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

blog.willj.net

Will Jessop's Writings; Sailing, Food, Programming, Technology, and other things

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

blog.willj.net screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Blog Will J content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blog.willj.net

I write about Ruby on Rails and Postgres scaling, performance and upgrade work, Ruby, Go and other programming topics, as well as sailing and cooking.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.willj.net page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.willj.net performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.willj.net

324 ms

219 ms

css

238 ms

224 ms

global.css

226 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blog.willj.net, 26% (15 requests) were made to Willjessop4.files.wordpress.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to S2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (581 ms) relates to the external source Willjessop4.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 739.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Blog.willj.net main page is 2.2 MB. 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. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 68.9 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 53.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Blog Will J images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 436.9 kB

  • Original 611.0 kB
  • After minification 516.9 kB
  • After compression 174.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 436.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 249.2 kB

  • Original 306.4 kB
  • After minification 303.8 kB
  • After compression 57.2 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. Blog.willj.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (55%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Will J. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.willj.net accessibility score

95

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.

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

Best Practices

blog.willj.net 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

SEO Factors

blog.willj.net SEO score

69

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

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 Blog.willj.net 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 Blog.willj.net 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 Blog Will J. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: