Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

authorskitchen.com

Blog - Authors Kitchen - Stories of Sugar and Spice

Page Load Speed

17.2 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

11.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

About Website

Welcome to authorskitchen.com homepage info - get ready to check Authors Kitchen best content right away, or after learning these important things about authorskitchen.com

Two writers sharing our adventures with food. We love cooking and have a passion for quality, so we focus on recipes with natural or organic ingredients whenever possible. Have some fun, learn how to ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Authorskitchen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 14.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

authorskitchen.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,390 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

authorskitchen.com

2689 ms

common.css

369 ms

squarespace-gallery-slideshow.css

129 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

144 ms

connection_core-min.js

3095 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Authorskitchen.com, 41% (34 requests) were made to Static1.1.sqspcdn.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Authorskitchen.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 389.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Authorskitchen.com main page is 3.2 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.8 kB

  • Original 54.7 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 43.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Authors Kitchen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 255.6 kB

  • Original 343.1 kB
  • After minification 306.1 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 255.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 51.2 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Authorskitchen.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (39%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Authors Kitchen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

authorskitchen.com accessibility score

68

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

authorskitchen.com 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

SEO Factors

authorskitchen.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Authorskitchen.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 Authorskitchen.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 Authors Kitchen. 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: