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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

writers.net

WritersNet - Writers, Editors, Agents, Publishers

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writers.net page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writers.net performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writers.net

143 ms

www.writers.net

153 ms

stylesheet_writers_sec.css

130 ms

urchin.js

20 ms

9ed0297c-0c95-47c9-b0d0-224e4a19af25.js

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Writers.net, 11% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Everestads.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (883 ms) belongs to the original domain Writers.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 145.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

354.3 kB

After Optimization

208.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Writers.net main page is 354.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 281.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.5 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 9.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 110 B

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 53.9 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. Writers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 131.7 kB

  • Original 281.6 kB
  • After minification 281.5 kB
  • After compression 149.9 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 131.7 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Writers.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (54%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

writers.net

writers.net

143 ms

www.writers.net

www.writers.net

153 ms

stylesheet_writers_sec.css

stylesheet_writers_sec.css

130 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

20 ms

9ed0297c-0c95-47c9-b0d0-224e4a19af25.js

9ed0297c-0c95-47c9-b0d0-224e4a19af25.js

202 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

19 ms

topnav_bg.gif

topnav_bg.gif

130 ms

1x1clear.gif

1x1clear.gif

132 ms

writersnet_logo.gif

writersnet_logo.gif

138 ms

button_search.gif

button_search.gif

143 ms

tab_bg.gif

tab_bg.gif

144 ms

tab_home.gif

tab_home.gif

171 ms

tab_writers.gif

tab_writers.gif

259 ms

tab_agents.gif

tab_agents.gif

274 ms

tab_editors.gif

tab_editors.gif

284 ms

tab_publishers.gif

tab_publishers.gif

288 ms

tab_resources.gif

tab_resources.gif

289 ms

tab_discussion.gif

tab_discussion.gif

288 ms

pubads_impl_81.js

pubads_impl_81.js

19 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

43 ms

ads

ads

80 ms

container.html

container.html

26 ms

brownbg.gif

brownbg.gif

322 ms

jstat.php

jstat.php

883 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

19 ms

osd.js

osd.js

26 ms

ca-pub-4772942728854524.js

ca-pub-4772942728854524.js

32 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

40 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

43 ms

ads

ads

201 ms

osd.js

osd.js

12 ms

ads

ads

212 ms

ads

ads

225 ms

4076

4076

61 ms

4076

4076

32 ms

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2a022c026db1949b3e626eab67d0fe54_6.html

41 ms

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2a022c026db1949b3e626eab67d0fe54_6.html

29 ms

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292 ms

st.v2.js

st.v2.js

25 ms

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25 ms

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11 ms

pixel_details.html

pixel_details.html

3 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

writers.net accessibility score

62

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

writers.net best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

writers.net SEO score

70

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Writers.net 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 Writers.net 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

writers.net

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