Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

rogermatthews.net

Biography | Roger Matthews | Professor of Criminology

Page Load Speed

904 ms in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

517 ms

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Roger Matthews content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about rogermatthews.net

The Biography of Roger Matthews, Professor of Criminology and Director of Studies for the MA in Criminology at the University of Kent's School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rogermatthews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 695 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rogermatthews.net performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rogermatthews.net

209 ms

css

17 ms

css

29 ms

roger_head.css

91 ms

roger_content.css

181 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Rogermatthews.net, 25% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 17% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (284 ms) belongs to the original domain Rogermatthews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

163.8 kB

After Optimization

159.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Rogermatthews.net main page is 163.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 156.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 3.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 738 B

  • Original 156.8 kB
  • After minification 156.1 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. Roger Matthews images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 153 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Rogermatthews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153 B or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (38%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Roger Matthews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rogermatthews.net accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

rogermatthews.net best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

rogermatthews.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rogermatthews.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 Rogermatthews.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

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