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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

foreignremarks.com

One writer's weekly cultural-political comments on living in Italy - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato blog foreign remarks

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

367 ms

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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American free lance writer Rebecca Helm-Ropelato blogs opinions about the experience of living near Rome in Italy, covering cultural, political and personal aspects

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Key Findings

We analyzed Foreignremarks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

foreignremarks.com performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

foreignremarks.com

96 ms

adaptinghome.css

44 ms

hdwx59sv8x.js

91 ms

dcp_1514.jpg

52 ms

blg_hdr.gif

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Foreignremarks.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (193 ms) belongs to the original domain Foreignremarks.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Foreignremarks.com main page is 1.9 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 61.4 kB

  • Original 87.8 kB
  • After minification 82.6 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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 61.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Foreign Remarks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 1.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 720 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Foreignremarks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 720 B or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (10%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Foreign Remarks. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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96 ms

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44 ms

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91 ms

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52 ms

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52 ms

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52 ms

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34 ms

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46 ms

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32 ms

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8 ms

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91 ms

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89 ms

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89 ms

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29 ms

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18 ms

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12 ms

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156 ms

Accessibility Review

foreignremarks.com accessibility score

81

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

foreignremarks.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

foreignremarks.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Foreignremarks.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 Foreignremarks.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

foreignremarks.com

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