Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

craiglawrence.co

Craig Lawrence - Author of thrillers and other books

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

200 ms

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About Website

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Home page of Craig Lawrence, best-selling author of Gurkha action adventure thrillers, Gurkha histories and books about strategy and leadership.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craiglawrence.co page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

craiglawrence.co performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.craiglawrence.co

48 ms

site.css

10 ms

duel.js

21 ms

jq.js

25 ms

analytics.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Craiglawrence.co, 43% (24 requests) were made to Nebula.wsimg.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Img1.wsimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Societyofauthors.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 525.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Craiglawrence.co main page is 2.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 101.9 kB

  • Original 128.4 kB
  • After minification 128.3 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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 101.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Craig Lawrence images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 89.9 kB

  • Original 345.9 kB
  • After minification 345.8 kB
  • After compression 256.0 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 89.9 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 329.2 kB

  • Original 397.6 kB
  • After minification 396.9 kB
  • After compression 68.4 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. Craiglawrence.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 329.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (27%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craig Lawrence. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

craiglawrence.co accessibility score

83

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

craiglawrence.co 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

craiglawrence.co SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Craiglawrence.co 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 Craiglawrence.co 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 Craig Lawrence. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: