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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

chriswelchonline.com

Celebrated Journalist & Author Chris Welch | Biography

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

747 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

335 ms

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About Website

Visit chriswelchonline.com now to see the best up-to-date Chris Welch Online content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chriswelchonline.com

Chris Welch is a music journalist, reviewer and critic who joined Melody Maker in 1964, a publication famous during the 1960s and 1970s for reporting on the rise of such bands as Led Zeppelin, The Rol...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chriswelchonline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 747 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chriswelchonline.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chriswelchonline.com

747 ms

882a12d0e9f18eaa73e127ac41ed071d.min.css

353 ms

jquery.min.js

315 ms

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245 ms

css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Chriswelchonline.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (965 ms) belongs to the original domain Chriswelchonline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 195.0 kB (2%)

Content Size

8.8 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chriswelchonline.com main page is 8.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 92.7 kB

  • Original 109.9 kB
  • After minification 107.5 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 92.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 8.2 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. Chris Welch Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 211.2 kB
  • After minification 211.2 kB
  • After compression 211.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 148.7 kB
  • After minification 148.7 kB
  • After compression 148.7 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. Chriswelchonline.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (12%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

45

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chris Welch Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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747 ms

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245 ms

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29 ms

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201 ms

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Accessibility Review

chriswelchonline.com accessibility score

87

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

chriswelchonline.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

chriswelchonline.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 Chriswelchonline.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 Chriswelchonline.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 Chris Welch Online. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: