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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

jamesdowen.com

Freelance Web Designer & Developer, Birmingham & UK - James Dowen

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

637 ms

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About Website

Welcome to jamesdowen.com homepage info - get ready to check James Dowen best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about jamesdowen.com

I'm James, a freelance web designer and web developer in Birmingham & UK. I build websites, ecommerce, financial sites, platforms, web apps, systems, user interfaces and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jamesdowen.com page load time and found that the first response time was 276 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

jamesdowen.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jamesdowen.com

276 ms

materialize.min.css

44 ms

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

global.css.php

120 ms

jquery.min.js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Jamesdowen.com, 13% (7 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Jamesdowen.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 483.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Jamesdowen.com main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 46.7 kB
  • After minification 37.2 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 9.6 kB, which is 20% 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 40.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. James Dowen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 208.0 kB

  • Original 302.0 kB
  • After minification 302.0 kB
  • After compression 94.0 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 208.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 204.5 kB

  • Original 246.0 kB
  • After minification 243.6 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Jamesdowen.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 204.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (14%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of James Dowen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

jamesdowen.com

jamesdowen.com

276 ms

materialize.min.css

materialize.min.css

44 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

global.css.php

global.css.php

120 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

55 ms

global.js.php

global.js.php

1140 ms

css

css

26 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

26 ms

james-dowen.jpg

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180 ms

cbp-loading.gif

cbp-loading.gif

161 ms

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397 ms

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321 ms

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392 ms

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489 ms

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477 ms

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478 ms

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551 ms

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481 ms

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710 ms

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633 ms

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558 ms

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646 ms

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631 ms

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715 ms

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726 ms

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864 ms

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880 ms

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945 ms

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946 ms

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943 ms

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1094 ms

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1119 ms

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1119 ms

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1092 ms

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147 ms

Accessibility Review

jamesdowen.com accessibility score

95

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

jamesdowen.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

jamesdowen.com SEO score

100

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

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 Jamesdowen.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 Jamesdowen.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

jamesdowen.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of James Dowen. 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: