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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

american-expat.uk

An American Expat in Scotland

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

362 ms

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About Website

Welcome to american-expat.uk homepage info - get ready to check American Expat best content right away, or after learning these important things about american-expat.uk

A recent university graduate from America writes about his move to Scotland and other miscellaneous adventures.

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Key Findings

We analyzed American-expat.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

american-expat.uk performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

american-expat.uk

115 ms

www.american-expat.uk

147 ms

3566091532-css_bundle_v2.css

22 ms

show_ads.js

100 ms

cookienotice.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original American-expat.uk, 41% (14 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 15% (5 requests) were made to Blogger.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (708 ms) relates to the external source 4.bp.blogspot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of American-expat.uk main page is 1.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 628.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

  • Original 84.6 kB
  • After minification 82.6 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 72.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 601.2 kB
  • After minification 601.2 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. American Expat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 256.6 kB

  • Original 628.0 kB
  • After minification 628.0 kB
  • After compression 371.4 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 256.6 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 127.5 kB
  • After minification 127.5 kB
  • After compression 127.5 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. American-expat.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (44%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Expat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

american-expat.uk

american-expat.uk

115 ms

www.american-expat.uk

www.american-expat.uk

147 ms

3566091532-css_bundle_v2.css

3566091532-css_bundle_v2.css

22 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

100 ms

cookienotice.js

cookienotice.js

16 ms

3717461131-widgets.js

3717461131-widgets.js

38 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

37 ms

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33 ms

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123 ms

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110 ms

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121 ms

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116 ms

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426 ms

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549 ms

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595 ms

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708 ms

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640 ms

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share_buttons_20_3.png

19 ms

icon18_edit_allbkg.gif

icon18_edit_allbkg.gif

100 ms

authorization.css

authorization.css

94 ms

image

image

617 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

13 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

42 ms

base.js

base.js

76 ms

authorization.css

authorization.css

259 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

650 ms

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465 ms

embed.js

embed.js

165 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

163 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

246 ms

base.js

base.js

420 ms

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237 ms

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61 ms

Accessibility Review

american-expat.uk accessibility score

53

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

american-expat.uk 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

SEO Factors

american-expat.uk SEO score

86

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise American-expat.uk 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 American-expat.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of American Expat. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: