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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

alanalda.com

Alan Alda actor, author, podcast host, advocate for science communication

Page Load Speed

633 ms in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

377 ms

Page Rendered

127 ms

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About Website

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Alan Alda is an award-winning actor, bestselling author. and host of the podcasts Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda and Science Clear + Vivid. Alda has won many awards for acting, writing, directing, scien...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alanalda.com page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 504 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

alanalda.com performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.151

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alanalda.com

129 ms

bootstrap-grid.min.css

32 ms

homepage.css

48 ms

e5183fc49d.js

86 ms

slim-10_7.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Alanalda.com, 19% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (143 ms) belongs to the original domain Alanalda.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.6 kB (27%)

Content Size

391.1 kB

After Optimization

286.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alanalda.com main page is 391.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 228.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.5 kB, which is 21% 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 18.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 228.1 kB
  • After minification 210.5 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. Alan Alda images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 64.1 kB

  • Original 127.4 kB
  • After minification 126.9 kB
  • After compression 63.3 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 64.1 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 13.8 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Alanalda.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (44%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alan Alda. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alanalda.com

alanalda.com

129 ms

bootstrap-grid.min.css

bootstrap-grid.min.css

32 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

48 ms

e5183fc49d.js

e5183fc49d.js

86 ms

slim-10_7.css

slim-10_7.css

20 ms

0f7b5f5464.js

0f7b5f5464.js

84 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

143 ms

homepage.js

homepage.js

38 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

clear-vivid.png

clear-vivid.png

41 ms

patreon_become.jpg

patreon_become.jpg

47 ms

ico-podcasts-itunes.png

ico-podcasts-itunes.png

29 ms

ico-podcasts-stitcher.jpg

ico-podcasts-stitcher.jpg

35 ms

ico-podcasts-spotify.png

ico-podcasts-spotify.png

76 ms

ico-podcasts-iheartradio.png

ico-podcasts-iheartradio.png

53 ms

alan-alda.png

alan-alda.png

140 ms

alan-alda-center-logo.png

alan-alda-center-logo.png

52 ms

0f7b5f5464.css

0f7b5f5464.css

61 ms

font-awesome-css.min.css

font-awesome-css.min.css

11 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

10 ms

Accessibility Review

alanalda.com accessibility score

91

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.

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

alanalda.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

alanalda.com SEO score

85

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

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 Alanalda.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 Alanalda.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

alanalda.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alan Alda. 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: