Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

betsymason.com

Betsy Mason Science Journalist

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

62 ms

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About Website

Visit betsymason.com now to see the best up-to-date Betsy Mason content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about betsymason.com

Betsy Mason is a freelance journalist specializing in science and cartography.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Betsymason.com page load time and found that the first response time was 102 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

betsymason.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.betsymason.com

102 ms

originTrials.41d7301a.bundle.min.js

30 ms

minified.js

41 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

36 ms

polyfill.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Betsymason.com, 48% (27 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 23% (13 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

782.9 kB

After Optimization

375.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Betsymason.com main page is 782.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 424.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 341.2 kB

  • Original 424.5 kB
  • After minification 422.9 kB
  • After compression 83.4 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 341.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 67.6 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, Betsy Mason needs image optimization as it can save up to 15.9 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 274.9 kB
  • After minification 274.8 kB
  • After compression 225.0 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 49.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (26%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Betsy Mason. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

betsymason.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

betsymason.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

betsymason.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Betsymason.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 Betsymason.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 Betsy Mason. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: