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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

catherinemcdonald.net

Catherine McDonald • Philosopher and Teacher, Melbourne AU

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

411 ms

About Website

Visit catherinemcdonald.net now to see the best up-to-date Catherine Mc Donald content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about catherinemcdonald.net

Catherine McDonald is a Melbourne VIC based Philosopher and teacher. Included are publications, articles, podcasts, and resources for teachers and students.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catherinemcdonald.net page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catherinemcdonald.net performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

catherinemcdonald.net

1101 ms

catherinemcdonald.net

1022 ms

autoptimize_fa34d442ff6301c338963affa7fe33b7.css

462 ms

autoptimize_fb774412a47866d01e744b61ba9b1962.css

641 ms

css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Catherinemcdonald.net, 30% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Catherinemcdonald.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 306.6 kB (80%)

Content Size

383.7 kB

After Optimization

77.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Catherinemcdonald.net main page is 383.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 342.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 37.4 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 29.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 277.4 kB

  • Original 342.1 kB
  • After minification 341.7 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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. Catherinemcdonald.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 277.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catherine Mc Donald. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

catherinemcdonald.net accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Best Practices

catherinemcdonald.net best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

catherinemcdonald.net SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Catherinemcdonald.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 Catherinemcdonald.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 Catherine Mc Donald. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: