Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

joycowley.com

The official Joy Cowley Website, Joy is one of New Zealand's most prolific and successful writers of children's books

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

477 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

About Website

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Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand's most prolific and successful writers of children's books,she has written more than 600 titles for all ages and her books are available in most countries where Englis...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Joycowley.com page load time and found that the first response time was 477 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

joycowley.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.158

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

joycowley.com

477 ms

joycowley.com

889 ms

sniffer.js

220 ms

custom.js

439 ms

style.js

655 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Joycowley.com, 22% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (889 ms) belongs to the original domain Joycowley.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

403.7 kB

After Optimization

334.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Joycowley.com main page is 403.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 174.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 17.0 kB
  • After minification 16.7 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 11.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 169.6 kB
  • After minification 165.2 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. Joy Cowley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 17.6 kB

  • Original 174.0 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 156.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Joycowley.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (29%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Joy Cowley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

joycowley.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

joycowley.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

joycowley.com SEO score

100

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

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 Joycowley.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 Joycowley.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 Joy Cowley. 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: