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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

davefiedler.com

Dave Fiedler

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

Visit davefiedler.com now to see the best up-to-date Dave Fiedler content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about davefiedler.com

David Fiedler is the author of four books to date, including a history of Missouri’s WWII prisoner-of-war camps called The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World War II, for which he received t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Davefiedler.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 2.1 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

davefiedler.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

davefiedler.com

1341 ms

style.css

81 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

136 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

135 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

196 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Davefiedler.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Twitter.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to X.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Davefiedler.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

461.1 kB

After Optimization

392.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Davefiedler.com main page is 461.1 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 273.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 30.5 kB
  • After minification 28.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 23.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 273.0 kB
  • After minification 263.5 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. Dave Fiedler images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 147.2 kB
  • After minification 144.2 kB
  • After compression 115.5 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 31.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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. Davefiedler.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (65%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dave Fiedler. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

davefiedler.com

davefiedler.com

1341 ms

style.css

style.css

81 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

ddsmoothmenu.css

136 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

jquery.lightbox-0.5.css

135 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

196 ms

jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js

147 ms

jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js

jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js

138 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

ddsmoothmenu.js

143 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

204 ms

Century_Gothic_400-Century_Gothic_700.font.js

Century_Gothic_400-Century_Gothic_700.font.js

207 ms

skin.css

skin.css

234 ms

my-calendar.css

my-calendar.css

234 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

270 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

258 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

268 ms

slidedeck.jquery.lite.pack.js

slidedeck.jquery.lite.pack.js

287 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

285 ms

blogger.js

blogger.js

86 ms

.json

.json

106 ms

blogger.js

blogger.js

101 ms

.json

.json

96 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

97 ms

bk_body.png

bk_body.png

94 ms

bk_header.jpg

bk_header.jpg

93 ms

dflogo1.png

dflogo1.png

92 ms

list_red_bullet.png

list_red_bullet.png

93 ms

df_header.png

df_header.png

93 ms

ico_rss.png

ico_rss.png

92 ms

bk_box_top.png

bk_box_top.png

131 ms

bk_box_mid.png

bk_box_mid.png

139 ms

bk_box_mid_inner.jpg

bk_box_mid_inner.jpg

139 ms

spines.png

spines.png

145 ms

slides.png

slides.png

140 ms

df_slider1.jpg

df_slider1.jpg

253 ms

ico_readmore.png

ico_readmore.png

189 ms

myml_slider.jpg

myml_slider.jpg

315 ms

eoa_slider.jpg

eoa_slider.jpg

203 ms

bk_box_bottom.png

bk_box_bottom.png

203 ms

bk_box_top_right.png

bk_box_top_right.png

211 ms

bk_box_mid_right.png

bk_box_mid_right.png

247 ms

bk_h2_right.png

bk_h2_right.png

267 ms

bk_box_bottom_right.png

bk_box_bottom_right.png

268 ms

bk_footer.jpg

bk_footer.jpg

246 ms

ga.js

ga.js

37 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

btn_buynow_LG.gif

btn_buynow_LG.gif

19 ms

Accessibility Review

davefiedler.com accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

davefiedler.com best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

davefiedler.com SEO score

79

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 Davefiedler.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 Davefiedler.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

davefiedler.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dave Fiedler. 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: