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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

writerslounge.net

Free poems publishing at the Writers Lounge: International community for poetry - writerslounge.net

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

296 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

615 ms

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About Website

Welcome to writerslounge.net homepage info - get ready to check Writers Lounge best content right away, or after learning these important things about writerslounge.net

The web's first and best known poetry community. Established 1997. Read and enjoy free poetry and publish your poems for free to an international audience! Discuss and like poems and contact authors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writerslounge.net page load time and found that the first response time was 296 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writerslounge.net performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.178

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writerslounge.net

296 ms

www.writerslounge.net

1098 ms

bootstrap.css

439 ms

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.css

327 ms

shariff.complete.css

485 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Writerslounge.net, 11% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Writerslounge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 330.4 kB (45%)

Content Size

740.6 kB

After Optimization

410.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Writerslounge.net main page is 740.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 295.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 17.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 629 B

  • Original 231.1 kB
  • After minification 230.4 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 Lounge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 151.7 kB

  • Original 295.0 kB
  • After minification 272.3 kB
  • After compression 143.3 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 151.7 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 160.3 kB

  • Original 190.0 kB
  • After minification 164.2 kB
  • After compression 29.6 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. Writerslounge.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (54%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writers Lounge. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

writerslounge.net

writerslounge.net

296 ms

www.writerslounge.net

www.writerslounge.net

1098 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

439 ms

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.css

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.css

327 ms

shariff.complete.css

shariff.complete.css

485 ms

writerslounge.css

writerslounge.css

329 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

83 ms

jquery.autocomplete.pack.js

jquery.autocomplete.pack.js

337 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

91 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

131 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

608 ms

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js

415 ms

shariff.complete.js

shariff.complete.js

757 ms

btn_donate_LG.gif

btn_donate_LG.gif

158 ms

typewriter-801921_960_720.jpg

typewriter-801921_960_720.jpg

561 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

153 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

69 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

103 ms

3171_thmb.jpg

3171_thmb.jpg

187 ms

2930_thmb.jpg

2930_thmb.jpg

188 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

155 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

136 ms

integrator.js

integrator.js

131 ms

ads

ads

329 ms

collect

collect

51 ms

ads

ads

389 ms

light-bottom.css

light-bottom.css

26 ms

sodar

sodar

45 ms

Accessibility Review

writerslounge.net accessibility score

81

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

writerslounge.net 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

writerslounge.net SEO score

92

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

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 Writerslounge.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 Writerslounge.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Writers Lounge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: