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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

richardplattauthor.com

Richard Platt | American Author of As One Devil to Another and Ripples From Walden Pond

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

361 ms

About Website

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As One Devil to Another is an astonishing debut work that C. S. Lewis’s biographer and foremost Lewis authority Walter Hooper calls 'a stunning achievement, the finest example of the genre of diabolic...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richardplattauthor.com page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

richardplattauthor.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.478

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

richardplattauthor.com

213 ms

style.css

137 ms

media-queries.css

151 ms

mediaelementplayer.css

211 ms

css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Richardplattauthor.com, 23% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (665 ms) belongs to the original domain Richardplattauthor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Richardplattauthor.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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 15.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Richard Platt Author images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 126.1 kB

  • Original 187.0 kB
  • After minification 180.2 kB
  • After compression 60.9 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 126.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 56.2 kB
  • After minification 41.9 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. Richardplattauthor.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (56%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richard Platt Author. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

richardplattauthor.com accessibility score

55

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

richardplattauthor.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

richardplattauthor.com SEO score

92

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 Richardplattauthor.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 Richardplattauthor.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 Richard Platt Author. 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: