Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

richardspens.com

RichardsPens.com • Pens That Write Right!

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richardspens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 1.4 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

richardspens.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

richardspens.com

222 ms

index.js

50 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

283 ms

toc.htm

61 ms

banner.htm

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Richardspens.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (293 ms) belongs to the original domain Richardspens.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.6 kB (31%)

Content Size

407.0 kB

After Optimization

280.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Richardspens.com main page is 407.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 262.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 4.2 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 2.0 kB or 46% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 262.4 kB
  • After minification 232.5 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. Obviously, Richards Pens needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 84.8 kB

  • Original 128.1 kB
  • After minification 123.2 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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 84.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Richardspens.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (27%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richards Pens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

richardspens.com accessibility score

73

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

richardspens.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

richardspens.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Richardspens.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 Richardspens.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 Richards Pens. 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: