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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

lynn-shepherd.com

The Charles Maddox series – Award-winning historical murder mysteries inspired by classic 19th-century novels

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

614 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

387 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lynn-shepherd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 614 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lynn-shepherd.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lynn-shepherd.com

614 ms

flexslider.css

13 ms

style.css

26 ms

26 ms

addthis_widget.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Lynn-shepherd.com, 9% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Lynn-shepherd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.9 kB (57%)

Content Size

731.3 kB

After Optimization

316.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lynn-shepherd.com main page is 731.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 547.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

  • Original 76.8 kB
  • After minification 75.6 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. 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 53.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 90.3 kB
  • After minification 87.5 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. Lynn Shepherd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 346.3 kB

  • Original 547.6 kB
  • After minification 547.6 kB
  • After compression 201.3 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 346.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Lynn-shepherd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (34%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lynn Shepherd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.lynn-shepherd.com

www.lynn-shepherd.com

614 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

13 ms

style.css

style.css

26 ms

26 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

10 ms

1022 ms

combined.js

combined.js

114 ms

all.js

all.js

268 ms

body_bg.png

body_bg.png

11 ms

logo_lynn_shepherd.png

logo_lynn_shepherd.png

11 ms

the-pierced-heart-380x550.jpg

the-pierced-heart-380x550.jpg

17 ms

bg-heading-1.gif

bg-heading-1.gif

13 ms

bg-heading-2.gif

bg-heading-2.gif

15 ms

footer_nav_bg.png

footer_nav_bg.png

19 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

20 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

28 ms

icon-vimeo.png

icon-vimeo.png

29 ms

icon-youtube.png

icon-youtube.png

30 ms

icon-rss.png

icon-rss.png

30 ms

69 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

234 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

437 ms

ga.js

ga.js

85 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

60 ms

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

45 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

77 ms

print.css

print.css

42 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

49 ms

shares.json

shares.json

40 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

137 ms

like.php

like.php

68 ms

qeKvIRsJabD.js

qeKvIRsJabD.js

485 ms

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547 ms

Accessibility Review

lynn-shepherd.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

lynn-shepherd.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lynn-shepherd.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Lynn-shepherd.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 Lynn-shepherd.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

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