Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

absoluteshakespeare.com

Absolute Shakespeare - plays, quotes, summaries, essays...

Page Load Speed

541 ms in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

451 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Absolute Shakespeare content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about absoluteshakespeare.com

Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Absoluteshakespeare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 451 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

absoluteshakespeare.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,680 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

absoluteshakespeare.com

90 ms

absoluteshakespeare.com

164 ms

adsbygoogle.js

106 ms

adsbygoogle.js

202 ms

bard.gif

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Absoluteshakespeare.com, 22% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (202 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

155.6 kB

After Optimization

137.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Absoluteshakespeare.com main page is 155.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 129.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.5 kB, which is 31% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 17.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Absolute Shakespeare images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 49 B

  • Original 129.5 kB
  • After minification 129.5 kB
  • After compression 129.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Absolute Shakespeare. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

absoluteshakespeare.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

absoluteshakespeare.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

absoluteshakespeare.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Absoluteshakespeare.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 Absoluteshakespeare.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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