Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

annegracie.com

Official Website of Regency Historical Romance Author Anne Gracie

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

5.1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

About Website

Welcome to annegracie.com homepage info - get ready to check Anne Gracie best content right away, or after learning these important things about annegracie.com

The website of Anne Gracie, a romance author who writes historical romances for Berkley Sensation and romantic comedy. The site contains writing articles and advice, as well as book excerpts, reviews ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Annegracie.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.1 sec and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

annegracie.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.172

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.annegracie.com

5147 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

245 ms

styles.css

143 ms

cff-style.css

292 ms

font-awesome.min.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Annegracie.com, 13% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Annegracie.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 625.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

511.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Annegracie.com main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 646.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 64.0 kB

  • Original 80.8 kB
  • After minification 78.8 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 64.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 219.7 kB
  • After minification 215.0 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. Anne Gracie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 396.8 kB

  • Original 646.6 kB
  • After minification 618.5 kB
  • After compression 249.8 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 396.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 159.8 kB

  • Original 189.5 kB
  • After minification 153.5 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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. Annegracie.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (63%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Anne Gracie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

annegracie.com accessibility score

86

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

annegracie.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

annegracie.com SEO score

71

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

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 Annegracie.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 Annegracie.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 data is detected on the main page of Anne Gracie. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: