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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

firstwriter.com

firstwriter.com - Writing Resource & Author Website

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

672 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstwriter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstwriter.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstwriter.com

277 ms

www.firstwriter.com

709 ms

subscribe.css

314 ms

flexPanels.css

238 ms

homepage.css

238 ms

Our browser made a total of 142 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Firstwriter.com, 11% (15 requests) were made to Jpandadyson.com and 10% (14 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (894 ms) relates to the external source A.c.appier.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 769.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstwriter.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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 114.4 kB

  • Original 142.3 kB
  • After minification 138.2 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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 114.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 136.4 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Firstwriter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 246.3 kB

  • Original 783.2 kB
  • After minification 754.9 kB
  • After compression 537.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 246.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 271.9 kB

  • Original 311.0 kB
  • After minification 255.6 kB
  • After compression 39.1 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. Firstwriter.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 271.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (49%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

67

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Firstwriter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

firstwriter.com accessibility score

73

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

firstwriter.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

firstwriter.com SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firstwriter.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Firstwriter.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 Firstwriter. 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: