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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

christophercotton.ca

Christopher Cotton – Department of Economics, Queen's University

Page Load Speed

492 ms in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

336 ms

Page Rendered

144 ms

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About Website

Visit christophercotton.ca now to see the best up-to-date Christopher Cotton content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about christophercotton.ca

Professor and Jarislowsky-Deutsch Chair in Economic & Financial PolicyQueen’s University, cc159@queensu.ca I am a Professor in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Queen&...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Christophercotton.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 480 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

christophercotton.ca performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

christophercotton.ca

12 ms

christophercotton.ca

21 ms

80 ms

77 ms

coblocks-style.css

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Christophercotton.ca, 24% (7 requests) were made to S2.wp.com and 17% (5 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (129 ms) belongs to the original domain Christophercotton.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

250.1 kB

After Optimization

196.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Christophercotton.ca main page is 250.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 121.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 52.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 121.2 kB
  • After minification 121.2 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. Christopher Cotton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 319 B

  • Original 39.6 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 429 B

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Christophercotton.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (65%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Christopher Cotton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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12 ms

christophercotton.ca

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21 ms

80 ms

77 ms

coblocks-style.css

coblocks-style.css

88 ms

93 ms

94 ms

css

css

97 ms

84 ms

92 ms

92 ms

hovercards.min.js

hovercards.min.js

89 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

82 ms

76 ms

93 ms

w.js

w.js

90 ms

global-print.css

global-print.css

23 ms

20180815-chris-cotton-6-2-1.jpg

20180815-chris-cotton-6-2-1.jpg

129 ms

wpcom-gray-white.png

wpcom-gray-white.png

15 ms

g.gif

g.gif

26 ms

remote-login.php

remote-login.php

129 ms

g.gif

g.gif

24 ms

g.gif

g.gif

23 ms

actionbar.css

actionbar.css

25 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

30 ms

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S6uyw4BMUTPHjxAwWw.ttf

27 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA.ttf

29 ms

0QI6MX1D_JOuGQbT0gvTJPa787weuxJPkqg.ttf

0QI6MX1D_JOuGQbT0gvTJPa787weuxJPkqg.ttf

34 ms

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35 ms

Accessibility Review

christophercotton.ca accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

christophercotton.ca 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

christophercotton.ca SEO score

100

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

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 Christophercotton.ca 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 Christophercotton.ca 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 Christopher Cotton. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: