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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

whatdiplomatsdo.com

What Diplomats Do

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

84 ms

About Website

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What Diplomats Do is a blog about becoming a Foreign Service Offier and what happens after when you work at a US embassy. I talk about diplomacy, State Department, my experiences, and I answer both re...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatdiplomatsdo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 1.7 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

whatdiplomatsdo.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.whatdiplomatsdo.com

71 ms

minified.js

39 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

37 ms

polyfill.min.js

81 ms

adsbygoogle.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Whatdiplomatsdo.com, 24% (17 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 22% (16 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (44%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Whatdiplomatsdo.com main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 980.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 807.4 kB

  • Original 980.2 kB
  • After minification 978.6 kB
  • After compression 172.8 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 807.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 445.4 kB
  • After minification 420.7 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. What Diplomats Do images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 199.1 kB

  • Original 908.8 kB
  • After minification 908.8 kB
  • After compression 709.6 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 199.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (44%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of What Diplomats Do. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

whatdiplomatsdo.com accessibility score

84

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

whatdiplomatsdo.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

whatdiplomatsdo.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Whatdiplomatsdo.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 Whatdiplomatsdo.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 What Diplomats Do. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: