Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

brucebradfield.co.za

Dr Bruce Bradfield | Online therapist & psychotherapy researcher MA (Clinical psychology, PhD)

Page Load Speed

14.7 sec in total

First Response

560 ms

Resources Loaded

13.9 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

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Bruce Bradfield M.A. Clinical Psychology, PhD Online therapist & Psychotherapy researcher Health Professions Council of South Africa Clinical Psychologist Registration number – PS0097497 New Zealand P...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brucebradfield.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 560 ms and then it took 14.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brucebradfield.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brucebradfield.co.za

560 ms

www.brucebradfield.com

10390 ms

bootstrap.css

256 ms

responsive.css

387 ms

camera.css

411 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Brucebradfield.co.za, 71% (80 requests) were made to Brucebradfield.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.4 sec) relates to the external source Brucebradfield.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

931.3 kB

After Optimization

823.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Brucebradfield.co.za main page is 931.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 538.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 58.7 kB

  • Original 75.9 kB
  • After minification 74.3 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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 58.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 538.2 kB
  • After minification 500.3 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. Bruce Bradfield images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 157.1 kB
  • After minification 157.1 kB
  • After compression 152.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 160.1 kB
  • After minification 159.6 kB
  • After compression 153.0 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. Brucebradfield.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (86%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bruce Bradfield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

brucebradfield.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

brucebradfield.co.za best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

brucebradfield.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Brucebradfield.co.za 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 Brucebradfield.co.za 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 Bruce Bradfield. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: