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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

ianridpath.com

Ian Ridpath: astronomy writer, broadcaster, lecturer

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

382 ms

Resources Loaded

934 ms

Page Rendered

335 ms

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About Website

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Ian Ridpath: amateur astronomy, constellation lore, astrophilately, UFO skepticism

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ianridpath.com page load time and found that the first response time was 382 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ianridpath.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.156

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ianridpath.com

382 ms

background.jpg

636 ms

qwdspacer.gif

155 ms

MSG9-1.jpg

378 ms

philip%20exploring.jpg

305 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ianridpath.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (636 ms) belongs to the original domain Ianridpath.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.3 kB (23%)

Content Size

335.5 kB

After Optimization

257.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Ianridpath.com main page is 335.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 293.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 7.3 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 36.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 293.4 kB
  • After minification 251.5 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, Ian Ridpath needs image optimization as it can save up to 41.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ian Ridpath. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

ianridpath.com

ianridpath.com

382 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

636 ms

qwdspacer.gif

qwdspacer.gif

155 ms

MSG9-1.jpg

MSG9-1.jpg

378 ms

philip%20exploring.jpg

philip%20exploring.jpg

305 ms

dictionary.jpg

dictionary.jpg

303 ms

Philip%20Starter%20Pack%20small.jpg

Philip%20Starter%20Pack%20small.jpg

332 ms

collinsguide2011.jpg

collinsguide2011.jpg

306 ms

amazon%20author.gif

amazon%20author.gif

295 ms

myname.png

myname.png

443 ms

portrait.jpg

portrait.jpg

448 ms

More1.gif

More1.gif

377 ms

Book1.gif

Book1.gif

386 ms

Tales1.gif

Tales1.gif

409 ms

Skeptic1.gif

Skeptic1.gif

456 ms

Stamp1.gif

Stamp1.gif

463 ms

Lectures1.gif

Lectures1.gif

486 ms

backbutton.jpg

backbutton.jpg

519 ms

Accessibility Review

ianridpath.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

ianridpath.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

SEO Factors

ianridpath.com SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ianridpath.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ianridpath.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

ianridpath.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ian Ridpath. 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: