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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

authordiscovery.com

Authordiscovery.com | Helping authors get found, get feedback, get fans, and even get famous!

Page Load Speed

620 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

404 ms

Page Rendered

186 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Authordiscovery.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 590 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

authordiscovery.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

authordiscovery.com

30 ms

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21 ms

style.css

80 ms

92 ms

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Authordiscovery.com, 16% (6 requests) were made to S1.wp.com and 16% (6 requests) were made to S2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (133 ms) relates to the external source R-login.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.1 kB (27%)

Content Size

301.3 kB

After Optimization

220.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Authordiscovery.com main page is 301.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 106.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 79.3 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 102.8 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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 79.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 530 B

  • Original 57.8 kB
  • After minification 57.2 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. Authordiscovery images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 908 B

  • Original 80.8 kB
  • After minification 80.8 kB
  • After compression 79.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 347 B

  • Original 56.5 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 56.1 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. Authordiscovery.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Authordiscovery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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30 ms

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21 ms

style.css

style.css

80 ms

92 ms

102 ms

93 ms

verbum-comments.css

verbum-comments.css

110 ms

block-editor.css

block-editor.css

113 ms

95 ms

93 ms

102 ms

106 ms

hovercards.min.js

hovercards.min.js

106 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

103 ms

106 ms

103 ms

w.js

w.js

109 ms

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52 ms

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85 ms

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54 ms

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29 ms

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77 ms

g.gif

g.gif

96 ms

remote-login.php

remote-login.php

133 ms

facebook-icon.png

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24 ms

g.gif

g.gif

88 ms

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g.gif

88 ms

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24 ms

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88 ms

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88 ms

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87 ms

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42 ms

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7 ms

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8 ms

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2 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

15 ms

Accessibility Review

authordiscovery.com accessibility score

84

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

authordiscovery.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

authordiscovery.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Authordiscovery.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 Authordiscovery.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 Authordiscovery. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: