Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

writersinkyoto.com

Writers In Kyoto – English-language authors in Japan’s old imperial capital

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writersinkyoto.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writersinkyoto.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.348

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writersinkyoto.com

1078 ms

style.min.css

41 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

46 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

45 ms

bc_cw_style.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Writersinkyoto.com, 19% (11 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Writersinkyoto.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (17%)

Content Size

9.2 MB

After Optimization

7.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Writersinkyoto.com main page is 9.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 172.6 kB

  • Original 223.8 kB
  • After minification 216.9 kB
  • After compression 51.2 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 172.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 8.7 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Obviously, Writers In Kyoto needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 89.8 kB
  • After minification 89.8 kB
  • After compression 82.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 106.1 kB
  • After minification 105.3 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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. Writersinkyoto.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (57%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writers In Kyoto. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

writersinkyoto.com accessibility score

88

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

writersinkyoto.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

writersinkyoto.com SEO score

68

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Writersinkyoto.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 Writersinkyoto.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 Writers In Kyoto. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: