Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

blogs.walkerart.org

Walker Reader

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

217 ms

blogs.walkerart.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.walkerart.org page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.walkerart.org performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.828

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.walkerart.org

119 ms

variable_width.css

161 ms

style.css

41 ms

5135.css

174 ms

modernizr.js

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.walkerart.org, 15% (8 requests) were made to Walkerart.org and 13% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (334 ms) relates to the external source F.fontdeck.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 263.9 kB (56%)

Content Size

470.3 kB

After Optimization

206.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.walkerart.org main page is 470.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 171.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.0 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 112.3 kB
  • After minification 112.3 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. Blogs Walker Art images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 95.0 kB

  • Original 157.9 kB
  • After minification 150.2 kB
  • After compression 62.9 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 95.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 147.3 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 162.7 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. Blogs.walkerart.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (73%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Walker Art. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blogs.walkerart.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

blogs.walkerart.org 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

blogs.walkerart.org SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.walkerart.org 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 Blogs.walkerart.org 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 description is not detected on the main page of Blogs Walker Art. 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: