Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

alexw.me

Alex Wolkov - personal blog. All things css, js, html, osx and mac applications.

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

197 ms

alexw.me screenshot

About Website

Welcome to alexw.me homepage info - get ready to check Alex W best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about alexw.me

Alex Wolkov aka Altrynes personal blog. UX & UI lead by title, Front End Developer by calling. Post on any subject from html5, css3, to UX and UI, and life hacks!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexw.me page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alexw.me performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alexw.me

63 ms

style.css

15 ms

source-sans-pro.js

60 ms

open-sans.js

68 ms

crayon.min.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Alexw.me, 11% (10 requests) were made to Use.edgefonts.net and 7% (6 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (365 ms) relates to the external source Contextual.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 563.0 kB (58%)

Content Size

965.9 kB

After Optimization

402.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Alexw.me main page is 965.9 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. Javascripts take 399.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 156.6 kB

  • Original 197.1 kB
  • After minification 194.1 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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 156.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 226.3 kB
  • After minification 213.4 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. Alex W images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 275.2 kB

  • Original 399.6 kB
  • After minification 362.8 kB
  • After compression 124.4 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 275.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 118.3 kB

  • Original 143.0 kB
  • After minification 125.9 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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. Alexw.me needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (79%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alex W. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alexw.me accessibility score

95

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

alexw.me 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

alexw.me SEO score

99

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

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 Alexw.me 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 Alexw.me 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 Alex W. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: