Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

kurtlourens.com

Kurt Lourens: Software Engineer - Red Ruby IT Co-Owner

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

98 ms

About Website

Visit kurtlourens.com now to see the best up-to-date Kurt Lourens content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kurtlourens.com

Kurt Lourens CV Website. Red Ruby IT Co-Owner. South African Software Engineer in The Netherlands. Lists Experiences, Certificates and Career Development.

Visit kurtlourens.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Kurtlourens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kurtlourens.com performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kurtlourens.com

1166 ms

main.css

985 ms

icon-pack.css

997 ms

css

32 ms

email-decode.min.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Kurtlourens.com, 15% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 15% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Kurtlourens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.0 kB (43%)

Content Size

164.4 kB

After Optimization

93.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kurtlourens.com main page is 164.4 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. HTML takes 88.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 70.7 kB

  • Original 88.0 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 70.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 79 B

  • Original 55.6 kB
  • After minification 55.6 kB
  • After compression 55.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 189 B

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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. Kurtlourens.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kurt Lourens. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

kurtlourens.com accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kurtlourens.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

kurtlourens.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 Kurtlourens.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 Kurtlourens.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 Kurt Lourens. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: