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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

practicalcreativewriting.com

Practical Creative Writing - sharing inspiration, writing tips, information and exercises.

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

629 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Practicalcreativewriting.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.5 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

practicalcreativewriting.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.practicalcreativewriting.com

1242 ms

fef8d.css

136 ms

www.practicalcreativewriting.com

342 ms

a8187.css

187 ms

a5ff7.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Practicalcreativewriting.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 8% (3 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Practicalcreativewriting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 242.5 kB (27%)

Content Size

905.0 kB

After Optimization

662.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Practicalcreativewriting.com main page is 905.0 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. Javascripts take 404.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 140.9 kB

  • Original 175.1 kB
  • After minification 175.1 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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 140.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 324.2 kB
  • After minification 319.7 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. Practical Creative Writing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 96.9 kB

  • Original 404.5 kB
  • After minification 400.0 kB
  • After compression 307.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 96.9 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 163 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Practicalcreativewriting.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (27%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Practical Creative Writing. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

practicalcreativewriting.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

practicalcreativewriting.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

practicalcreativewriting.com SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Practicalcreativewriting.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 Practicalcreativewriting.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 Practical Creative Writing. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: