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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

bradbirdsall.com

Brad – Medium

Page Load Speed

891 ms in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

772 ms

Page Rendered

111 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bradbirdsall.com page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 883 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bradbirdsall.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

@b

8 ms

@b

148 ms

main-base.IFJUnFUw4SRQF1FfuINu0g.css

71 ms

main-base.bundle.m83G729yn7q7V7Milm_yFg.js

137 ms

icons.eR1AJ_5I759hGrg36Jtvbg.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Bradbirdsall.com, 27% (3 requests) were made to Medium.com and 18% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (347 ms) relates to the external source Cdn-images-1.medium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 593.7 kB (71%)

Content Size

834.8 kB

After Optimization

241.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bradbirdsall.com main page is 834.8 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. Javascripts take 379.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 86.9 kB
  • After minification 85.7 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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 57.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 415 B

  • Original 20.1 kB
  • After minification 19.7 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. Brad Birdsall images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 243.7 kB

  • Original 379.9 kB
  • After minification 379.9 kB
  • After compression 136.2 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 243.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 292.6 kB

  • Original 347.9 kB
  • After minification 347.8 kB
  • After compression 55.3 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. Bradbirdsall.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 292.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (44%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brad Birdsall. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

@b

@b

8 ms

@b

@b

148 ms

main-base.IFJUnFUw4SRQF1FfuINu0g.css

main-base.IFJUnFUw4SRQF1FfuINu0g.css

71 ms

main-base.bundle.m83G729yn7q7V7Milm_yFg.js

main-base.bundle.m83G729yn7q7V7Milm_yFg.js

137 ms

icons.eR1AJ_5I759hGrg36Jtvbg.js

icons.eR1AJ_5I759hGrg36Jtvbg.js

67 ms

ga.js

ga.js

251 ms

stat

stat

343 ms

0*_xp_46rNdXVTRk8m.png

0*_xp_46rNdXVTRk8m.png

347 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

40 ms

main-common-async.bundle.Jl1Gv1scggs1oLwpdlZwgQ.js

main-common-async.bundle.Jl1Gv1scggs1oLwpdlZwgQ.js

8 ms

main-misc-screens.bundle.Y8Bo8T52xbXMkyVkujRZ7Q.js

main-misc-screens.bundle.Y8Bo8T52xbXMkyVkujRZ7Q.js

16 ms

Accessibility Review

bradbirdsall.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA tooltip elements do not have accessible names.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bradbirdsall.com best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bradbirdsall.com SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bradbirdsall.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 Bradbirdsall.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Brad Birdsall. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: