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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

joanbaxter.ca

Joan Baxter | Journalist & Author

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Joanbaxter.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

joanbaxter.ca performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,290 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

joanbaxter.ca

55 ms

joanbaxter.ca

1135 ms

www.joanbaxter.ca

127 ms

style.min.css

41 ms

front_end_style.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Joanbaxter.ca, 9% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Joanbaxter.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 676.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Joanbaxter.ca main page is 9.3 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 8.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 157.3 kB

  • Original 199.1 kB
  • After minification 191.8 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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 157.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 505.7 kB

  • Original 8.5 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Joan Baxter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 420.4 kB
  • After minification 420.4 kB
  • After compression 418.9 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 148.4 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 136.6 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. Joanbaxter.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (59%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Joan Baxter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

joanbaxter.ca accessibility score

82

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

joanbaxter.ca best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

joanbaxter.ca SEO score

78

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Joanbaxter.ca 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 Joanbaxter.ca 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

joanbaxter.ca

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