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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

outofbabel.com

Out of Babel – epic fiction about the very ancient world

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

820 ms

Page Rendered

702 ms

About Website

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It is my delight to bring you meaty prehistoric novels. I hope to do so for many years to come. I spent my youth gallivanting around Southeast Asia with my husband, learning languages and crossing cul...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Outofbabel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

outofbabel.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,380 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

outofbabel.com

253 ms

jru2jxj.css

94 ms

autoptimize_single_39e3edabd8f8b219fd048eb84a468bdf.php

98 ms

style.min.css

27 ms

dashicons.min.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Outofbabel.com, 17% (10 requests) were made to and 10% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (395 ms) belongs to the original domain Outofbabel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 52.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Outofbabel.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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 50.1 kB

  • Original 72.4 kB
  • After minification 72.4 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 50.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Out Of Babel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 256.1 kB
  • After minification 256.1 kB
  • After compression 254.1 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 794 B

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 64.8 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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. Outofbabel.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (79%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Out Of Babel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 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

outofbabel.com accessibility score

87

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

outofbabel.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

outofbabel.com SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Outofbabel.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 Outofbabel.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 Out Of Babel. 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: