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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

afterthoughtsblog.net

Afterthoughts - ... for the Classical, Charlotte Mason Mama

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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An intellectual watering hole for classical, Charlotte Mason homeschooling mamas. We resist systems and instead implement methods -- practices driven by principles. The result? We DO with strength and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afterthoughtsblog.net page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

afterthoughtsblog.net performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.121

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

afterthoughtsblog.net

132 ms

afterthoughtsblog.net

1482 ms

siteground-optimizer-combined-css-d5358050fe6ce37cb193a48e3bb5664e.css

191 ms

font-awesome.min.css

66 ms

css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Afterthoughtsblog.net, 22% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Afterthoughtsblog.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 294.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Afterthoughtsblog.net main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 191.6 kB

  • Original 255.4 kB
  • After minification 254.9 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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 191.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 59.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Afterthoughts Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 166.7 kB
  • After minification 166.7 kB
  • After compression 141.7 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 25.0 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 85.5 kB
  • After compression 66.7 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. Afterthoughtsblog.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (31%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Afterthoughts Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

afterthoughtsblog.net 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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

afterthoughtsblog.net best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

afterthoughtsblog.net SEO score

84

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

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

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 Afterthoughtsblog.net 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 Afterthoughtsblog.net 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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Afterthoughts Blog. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: