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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

emilygould.com

Emily Gould | Author, novelist, and blogger :Emily Gould | Author, novelist, and blogger

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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

Emily Gould is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever, Friendship, and the forthcoming Perfect Tunes (April 2020). With Ruth Curry, she runs Emily Books, which sells and publishes books by women as...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Emilygould.com page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 5.3 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

emilygould.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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178 ms

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2632 ms

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132 ms

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205 ms

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194 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Emilygould.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Emilygould.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (13%)

Content Size

9.9 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Emilygould.com main page is 9.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 32.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 9.8 MB
  • After minification 8.5 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. Obviously, Emily Gould needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 51.3 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 9.0 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 31.5 kB
  • After minification 31.2 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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. Emilygould.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (17%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

43

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Emily Gould. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

emilygould.com accessibility score

90

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

emilygould.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

emilygould.com 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 Emilygould.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 Emilygould.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

emilygould.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Emily Gould. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: