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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

howarddvorkin.com

Personal Finance Expert, Consumer Advocate – Howard Dvorkin

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

309 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Howard Dvorkin content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about howarddvorkin.com

Welcome to HowardDvorkin.com – Howard’s personal website that has all the latest news and expert advice from financial expert Howard Dvorkin, CPA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howarddvorkin.com page load time and found that the first response time was 309 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howarddvorkin.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.howarddvorkin.com

309 ms

style.min.css

23 ms

style.css

38 ms

bundle.min.css

227 ms

all.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Howarddvorkin.com, 13% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (345 ms) belongs to the original domain Howarddvorkin.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.2 kB (8%)

Content Size

529.1 kB

After Optimization

488.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Howarddvorkin.com main page is 529.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 251.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 6.4 kB, which is 17% 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 29.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 251.1 kB
  • After minification 243.3 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. Howard Dvorkin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 168.9 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 166.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 71.5 kB
  • After minification 71.5 kB
  • After compression 71.5 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. Howarddvorkin.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (44%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howard Dvorkin. 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

www.howarddvorkin.com

www.howarddvorkin.com

309 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

23 ms

style.css

style.css

38 ms

bundle.min.css

bundle.min.css

227 ms

all.css

all.css

54 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

25 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

47 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

49 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

345 ms

css

css

33 ms

css

css

50 ms

css

css

57 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

115 ms

4nk_fo4nw3g

4nk_fo4nw3g

153 ms

Forbes-logo-off.png

Forbes-logo-off.png

58 ms

Forbes-logo-on.png

Forbes-logo-on.png

58 ms

logo-hsd.png

logo-hsd.png

58 ms

banners-v4-a.jpg

banners-v4-a.jpg

58 ms

banners-v4-a-mo.jpg

banners-v4-a-mo.jpg

57 ms

afi-media-logo-usnews.png

afi-media-logo-usnews.png

57 ms

afi-media-logo-nytimes.png

afi-media-logo-nytimes.png

102 ms

afi-media-logo-foxbusiness.png

afi-media-logo-foxbusiness.png

103 ms

afi-media-logo-forbes.png

afi-media-logo-forbes.png

102 ms

afi-media-logo-entrepreneur.png

afi-media-logo-entrepreneur.png

103 ms

ctas-homepage-dod.jpg

ctas-homepage-dod.jpg

102 ms

ctas-homepage-columns.jpg

ctas-homepage-columns.jpg

102 ms

ctas-homepage-books.jpg

ctas-homepage-books.jpg

108 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

57 ms

font

font

68 ms

font

font

69 ms

logo-forbes-2024.png

logo-forbes-2024.png

54 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

10 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

27 ms

base.js

base.js

50 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

119 ms

cZ4mj-RCrgMYFwmmyFhFlnrCDlUkKgOwCtwj6KJj2Fc.js

cZ4mj-RCrgMYFwmmyFhFlnrCDlUkKgOwCtwj6KJj2Fc.js

90 ms

embed.js

embed.js

29 ms

id

id

22 ms

Accessibility Review

howarddvorkin.com accessibility score

96

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

howarddvorkin.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

howarddvorkin.com SEO score

86

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

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 Howarddvorkin.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 Howarddvorkin.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

howarddvorkin.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Howard Dvorkin. 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: