Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

briandesmond.com

Active Directory, Identity, Windows and Exchange by Brian Desmond

Page Load Speed

22.9 sec in total

First Response

263 ms

Resources Loaded

20.6 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Briandesmond.com page load time and found that the first response time was 263 ms and then it took 22.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

briandesmond.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,470 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.584

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

briandesmond.com

263 ms

BaseSite.less

130 ms

ir

20152 ms

adsbygoogle.js

1351 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Briandesmond.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.5 kB (56%)

Content Size

323.4 kB

After Optimization

143.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Briandesmond.com main page is 323.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 202.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 172.3 kB

  • Original 202.9 kB
  • After minification 196.4 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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 172.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 14.0 kB
  • After minification 14.0 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. Brian Desmond images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 98.3 kB
  • After minification 98.3 kB
  • After compression 94.4 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

-41%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 8.2 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Briandesmond.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brian Desmond. 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

briandesmond.com accessibility score

66

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

briandesmond.com best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

briandesmond.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Briandesmond.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 Briandesmond.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 description is not detected on the main page of Brian Desmond. 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: