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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

andrewbarker.com

Andrew Barker: Thoughts and Tools for successful (IT) projects

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Andrewbarker.com page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

andrewbarker.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

andrewbarker.com

169 ms

andrewbarker.com

1606 ms

style.php

131 ms

javascript.php

191 ms

wp-embed.min.js

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Andrewbarker.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to Ift.tt and 12% (5 requests) were made to Feeds.feedburner.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Andrewbarker.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 119.9 kB (41%)

Content Size

294.8 kB

After Optimization

174.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Andrewbarker.com main page is 294.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 154.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 119.9 kB

  • Original 132.6 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 119.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 154.2 kB
  • After minification 154.2 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. Andrew Barker images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 44 B

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (75%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Andrew Barker. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

andrewbarker.com accessibility score

70

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

andrewbarker.com best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

andrewbarker.com SEO score

69

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

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 Andrewbarker.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 Andrewbarker.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

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