Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

castlemediagroup.com

Author Media - Innovative Book Promotion For Writers

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

822 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castlemediagroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castlemediagroup.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.359

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castlemediagroup.com

48 ms

www.authormedia.com

182 ms

inbox-light-bulb.jpg

50 ms

author-media-logo.png

36 ms

subscribe-loader.gif

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Castlemediagroup.com, 56% (29 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 23% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 394.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Castlemediagroup.com main page is 2.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 394.5 kB

  • Original 458.6 kB
  • After minification 453.2 kB
  • After compression 64.2 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 394.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Castle Media Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 54 B

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 10.7 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castle Media Group. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

castlemediagroup.com accessibility score

65

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

castlemediagroup.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

SEO Factors

castlemediagroup.com SEO score

93

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

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 Castlemediagroup.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 Castlemediagroup.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 Castle Media Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: