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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

hedcut.com

HEDCUT ILLUSTRATIONS BY NOLI NOVAK - Noli Novak - Pen and Ink Hedcut Illustrator and Full-Time Staff Member for the Wall Street Journal

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

677 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hedcut.com homepage info - get ready to check HEDCUT best content right away, or after learning these important things about hedcut.com

Noli Novak has produced pen and ink stipple portraits for the Wall Street Journal since 1987. Novak has created hedcut illustrations for international clients, which have appeared in print and online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hedcut.com page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 2.4 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

hedcut.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.288

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hedcut.com

150 ms

www.hedcut.com

219 ms

sites.css

19 ms

fancybox.css

36 ms

social-icons.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 226 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (201 requests) were addressed to the original Hedcut.com, 10% (23 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 0% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (219 ms) belongs to the original domain Hedcut.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.6 kB (1%)

Content Size

12.0 MB

After Optimization

11.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hedcut.com main page is 12.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 101.1 kB

  • Original 114.3 kB
  • After minification 113.0 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 101.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.4 MB
  • After minification 11.4 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. HEDCUT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 449.8 kB
  • After minification 449.8 kB
  • After compression 441.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 41.7 kB
  • After minification 41.0 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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. Hedcut.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (7%)

Requests Now

215

After Optimization

199

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 215 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HEDCUT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hedcut.com

hedcut.com

150 ms

www.hedcut.com

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219 ms

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19 ms

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35 ms

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35 ms

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gates_1.jpg

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paulson.jpg

paulson.jpg

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banks.jpg

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Accessibility Review

hedcut.com accessibility score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

hedcut.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

hedcut.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Hedcut.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 Hedcut.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

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