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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

foreignperspectives.com

Foreign Perspectives

Page Load Speed

28.6 sec in total

First Response

367 ms

Resources Loaded

27.7 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

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About Website

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Travel, expat life, politics mixed with a dab of futurism.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Foreignperspectives.com page load time and found that the first response time was 367 ms and then it took 28.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

foreignperspectives.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

foreignperspectives.com

367 ms

www.foreignperspectives.com

6842 ms

script.js

93 ms

style.css

189 ms

widget.css

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Foreignperspectives.com, 14% (12 requests) were made to Feedjit.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Img.irishblogs.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 310.0 kB (51%)

Content Size

609.2 kB

After Optimization

299.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Foreignperspectives.com main page is 609.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 263.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 59.3 kB
  • After minification 57.8 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 48.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 184.7 kB
  • After minification 156.9 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. Obviously, Foreign Perspectives needs image optimization as it can save up to 27.8 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 149.4 kB

  • Original 263.0 kB
  • After minification 257.3 kB
  • After compression 113.7 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 149.4 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 102.2 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. Foreignperspectives.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 84.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (66%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Foreign Perspectives. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

foreignperspectives.com

foreignperspectives.com

367 ms

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6842 ms

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93 ms

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189 ms

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241 ms

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253 ms

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287 ms

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316 ms

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286 ms

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314 ms

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129 ms

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4 ms

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252 ms

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721 ms

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532 ms

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10 ms

Accessibility Review

foreignperspectives.com accessibility score

84

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

foreignperspectives.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

foreignperspectives.com 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 Foreignperspectives.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 Foreignperspectives.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

foreignperspectives.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Foreign Perspectives. 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: