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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

authors.com

Authors.com - Authors, Writers, Publishers, and Book Readers

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

519 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Authors.com page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

authors.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.authors.com

247 ms

gtm.js

46 ms

common.min.css

21 ms

component.min.css

29 ms

bottom-bar.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Authors.com, 52% (45 requests) were made to Storage.ning.com and 22% (19 requests) were made to Static.ning.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Files.go2web20.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

758.3 kB

After Optimization

488.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Authors.com main page is 758.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 554.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 112.7 kB

  • Original 137.7 kB
  • After minification 123.6 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 112.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 280 B

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 21.0 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. Authors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 156.3 kB

  • Original 554.1 kB
  • After minification 554.1 kB
  • After compression 397.8 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 156.3 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 921 B

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 44.3 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. Authors.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (33%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Authors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.authors.com

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247 ms

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46 ms

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21 ms

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29 ms

bottom-bar.min.css

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18 ms

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280 ms

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142 ms

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27 ms

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5 ms

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105 ms

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26 ms

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26 ms

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26 ms

modernizr.custom.js

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46 ms

jstorage.min.js

jstorage.min.js

46 ms

Base64.js

Base64.js

49 ms

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49 ms

jquery.iframe-transport.js

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49 ms

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Accessibility Review

authors.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

authors.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

authors.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

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 Authors.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 Authors.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

authors.com

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