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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

andrewsolomon.com

Andrew Solomon | Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts.

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

302 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Andrew Solomon content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about andrewsolomon.com

Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Andrewsolomon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 302 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

andrewsolomon.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.437

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

andrewsolomon.com

302 ms

andrewsolomon.com

3954 ms

style.css

244 ms

chosen.css

277 ms

foundation.css

399 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Andrewsolomon.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Andrewsolomon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 790.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Andrewsolomon.com main page is 4.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 108.5 kB

  • Original 127.4 kB
  • After minification 118.0 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 108.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 MB

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. Andrew Solomon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 398.3 kB

  • Original 508.2 kB
  • After minification 349.1 kB
  • After compression 109.8 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 398.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 236.2 kB

  • Original 272.6 kB
  • After minification 228.5 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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. Andrewsolomon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 236.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (32%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Andrew Solomon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

andrewsolomon.com

andrewsolomon.com

302 ms

andrewsolomon.com

andrewsolomon.com

3954 ms

style.css

style.css

244 ms

chosen.css

chosen.css

277 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

399 ms

slick.css

slick.css

274 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

273 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

375 ms

what-input.min.js

what-input.min.js

333 ms

jquery.cycle.js

jquery.cycle.js

471 ms

script.js

script.js

351 ms

chosen.jquery.js

chosen.jquery.js

438 ms

js

js

84 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

603 ms

addthis_wordpress_public.min.css

addthis_wordpress_public.min.css

391 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

61 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

338 ms

foundation.js

foundation.js

789 ms

app.js

app.js

354 ms

custom.js

custom.js

494 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

343 ms

footer-top-border.png

footer-top-border.png

249 ms

footer-bg2.png

footer-bg2.png

251 ms

footer-top-border2.png

footer-top-border2.png

247 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

249 ms

logo.png

logo.png

251 ms

icon-mail.png

icon-mail.png

249 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

250 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

253 ms

icon-youtube.png

icon-youtube.png

258 ms

rss.png

rss.png

256 ms

signUp02.png

signUp02.png

248 ms

signUp04.png

signUp04.png

247 ms

icon-search.png

icon-search.png

257 ms

face.png

face.png

257 ms

Carousel_Books_all02.png

Carousel_Books_all02.png

787 ms

Carousel_FFTT_doc_poster.png

Carousel_FFTT_doc_poster.png

259 ms

Carousel_New_Family_Values_Audible_cover.png

Carousel_New_Family_Values_Audible_cover.png

257 ms

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495 ms

Carousel_Book_FFTT.png

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776 ms

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435 ms

Carousel_Book_Um_Crime_da_Solidao.png

Carousel_Book_Um_Crime_da_Solidao.png

423 ms

Carousel_Book_Stone_Boat.png

Carousel_Book_Stone_Boat.png

423 ms

Carousel_UN_Cindy_Ord_Getty02.png

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780 ms

Carousel_PEN_podium_Sheehan.png

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428 ms

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487 ms

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490 ms

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780 ms

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781 ms

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774 ms

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773 ms

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860 ms

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840 ms

dog.png

dog.png

860 ms

js

js

214 ms

moatframe.js

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207 ms

footer-background.png

footer-background.png

640 ms

mailfoot.png

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640 ms

facebookfoot.png

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631 ms

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683 ms

youtubefoot.png

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703 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

297 ms

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190 ms

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228 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

170 ms

slick.woff

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173 ms

sh.f48a1a04fe8dbf021b4cda1d.html

sh.f48a1a04fe8dbf021b4cda1d.html

58 ms

collect

collect

35 ms

Accessibility Review

andrewsolomon.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

andrewsolomon.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

andrewsolomon.com SEO score

76

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Andrewsolomon.com 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 Andrewsolomon.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 data is detected on the main page of Andrew Solomon. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: