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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

samlow.com

Welcome to Sam Low.com - Photographs, Articles, and Musings

Page Load Speed

435 ms in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

184 ms

Page Rendered

159 ms

About Website

Welcome to samlow.com homepage info - get ready to check Sam Low best content right away, or after learning these important things about samlow.com

A website offering fine art photographs, my documentary films, and articles concerning Polynesian Navigation, Sailing, Martha's Vineyard, Automobile Racing, and Hawaii.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Samlow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 343 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

samlow.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

samlow.com

92 ms

beachimg.jpg

75 ms

CoverDecNAINOAWEB_000.jpg

76 ms

unnamed.jpg

77 ms

bandstand.jpg

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Samlow.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (92 ms) belongs to the original domain Samlow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.5 kB (2%)

Content Size

182.2 kB

After Optimization

177.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Samlow.com main page is 182.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 177.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 3.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 177.4 kB
  • After minification 176.1 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. Sam Low images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sam Low. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

samlow.com accessibility score

50

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

samlow.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

SEO Factors

samlow.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Samlow.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Samlow.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sam Low. 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: