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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 38

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

gatesnotes.com

Home | Bill Gates

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gatesnotes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gatesnotes.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.145

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gatesnotes.com

173 ms

www.gatesnotes.com

136 ms

css

41 ms

css

56 ms

css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Gatesnotes.com, 20% (23 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 10% (12 requests) were made to Assets.gatesnotes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (557 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 887.0 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gatesnotes.com main page is 2.4 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 978.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 753.8 kB

  • Original 898.5 kB
  • After minification 843.7 kB
  • After compression 144.7 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 753.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 980 B

  • Original 978.3 kB
  • After minification 977.3 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. Gates Notes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 131.2 kB

  • Original 551.3 kB
  • After minification 551.1 kB
  • After compression 420.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 131.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 946 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Gatesnotes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 946 B or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (63%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gates Notes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gatesnotes.com accessibility score

38

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

gatesnotes.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gatesnotes.com SEO score

71

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Gatesnotes.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 Gatesnotes.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 Gates Notes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: