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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

dorothydunnett.co.uk

Dorothy Dunnett - historical fiction writer and portrait painter

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

396 ms

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About Website

Visit dorothydunnett.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Dorothy Dunnett content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dorothydunnett.co.uk

Dorothy Dunnett 1923-2001, author of the two historical fiction series, The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolo, portrait painter and sculptress, and a tireless worker for Scotland with her hus...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dorothydunnett.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 2.2 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

dorothydunnett.co.uk performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.261

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dorothydunnett.co.uk

239 ms

www.dorothydunnett.co.uk

639 ms

dunnett.js

155 ms

dunnett2v4.css

157 ms

urchin.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Dorothydunnett.co.uk, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (691 ms) belongs to the original domain Dorothydunnett.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

385.8 kB

After Optimization

354.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dorothydunnett.co.uk main page is 385.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 345.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 25.2 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.7 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 19.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 345.2 kB
  • After minification 340.3 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. Dorothy Dunnett images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 9.1 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 2.4 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Dorothydunnett.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dorothy Dunnett. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

dorothydunnett.co.uk

dorothydunnett.co.uk

239 ms

www.dorothydunnett.co.uk

www.dorothydunnett.co.uk

639 ms

dunnett.js

dunnett.js

155 ms

dunnett2v4.css

dunnett2v4.css

157 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

8 ms

dunnett2.css

dunnett2.css

156 ms

cream1.gif

cream1.gif

161 ms

ddalpinegold300x60.jpg

ddalpinegold300x60.jpg

156 ms

dditaliancursivegold140.jpg

dditaliancursivegold140.jpg

161 ms

duddbw250.jpg

duddbw250.jpg

160 ms

celtbordL2.jpg

celtbordL2.jpg

159 ms

celtbordr2.jpg

celtbordr2.jpg

160 ms

celtbordL.jpg

celtbordL.jpg

308 ms

50th-2.jpg

50th-2.jpg

689 ms

paula-flowers1-600.jpg

paula-flowers1-600.jpg

690 ms

50th-1-600.jpg

50th-1-600.jpg

691 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

2 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

290 ms

Accessibility Review

dorothydunnett.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

Best Practices

dorothydunnett.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

dorothydunnett.co.uk 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dorothydunnett.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Dorothydunnett.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

dorothydunnett.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dorothy Dunnett. 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: