Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

writersweekly.com

WritersWeekly.com | Paying Markets for Writers, Freelancing Job Listings, and Whispers and Warnings About the Writing and Publishing Industries!

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

575 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writersweekly.com page load time and found that the first response time was 575 ms and then it took 2.9 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

writersweekly.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,990 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.48

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writersweekly.com

575 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

18 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

30 ms

formidablepro.css

32 ms

layout.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Writersweekly.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Ecx.images-amazon.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Themes.googleusercontent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (965 ms) belongs to the original domain Writersweekly.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 818.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Writersweekly.com main page is 2.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 106.6 kB

  • Original 132.9 kB
  • After minification 114.5 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.5 kB, which is 14% 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 106.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 84.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Writers Weekly images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 294.5 kB

  • Original 407.7 kB
  • After minification 355.3 kB
  • After compression 113.2 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 294.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 332.5 kB

  • Original 397.0 kB
  • After minification 369.5 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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. Writersweekly.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 332.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (43%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writers Weekly. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

writersweekly.com accessibility score

72

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.

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

writersweekly.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

writersweekly.com SEO score

68

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

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 Writersweekly.com 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 Writersweekly.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 Writers Weekly. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: