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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% 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

kencockburn.co.uk

Poems on the page and in the world | Ken Cockburn's website & blog

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

881 ms

Page Rendered

628 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ken Cockburn content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kencockburn.co.uk

This is the website of Edinburgh-based poet and translator Ken Cockburn. Latest News I'm running more poetry walks in Edinburgh over the next few months, from 21 June to 12 October. Full details ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kencockburn.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kencockburn.co.uk performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kencockburn.co.uk

79 ms

kencockburn.co.uk

266 ms

119 ms

137 ms

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Kencockburn.co.uk, 21% (8 requests) were made to S0.wp.com and 18% (7 requests) were made to Kencockburn.files.wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (282 ms) relates to the external source Kencockburn.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kencockburn.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • Original 106.9 kB
  • After minification 101.4 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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 80.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Ken Cockburn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 137.3 kB

  • Original 263.6 kB
  • After minification 263.6 kB
  • After compression 126.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 137.3 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 305 B

  • Original 47.4 kB
  • After minification 47.4 kB
  • After compression 47.1 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. Kencockburn.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (57%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ken Cockburn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kencockburn.co.uk

kencockburn.co.uk

79 ms

kencockburn.co.uk

kencockburn.co.uk

266 ms

119 ms

137 ms

138 ms

147 ms

verbum-comments.css

verbum-comments.css

156 ms

block-editor.css

block-editor.css

164 ms

css

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191 ms

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149 ms

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hovercards.min.js

hovercards.min.js

158 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

153 ms

153 ms

185 ms

index.min.js

index.min.js

152 ms

155 ms

w.js

w.js

184 ms

25693-kc-2018.jpg

25693-kc-2018.jpg

282 ms

platform.js

platform.js

90 ms

wpcom-gray-white.png

wpcom-gray-white.png

80 ms

dscf4743-2.jpg

dscf4743-2.jpg

218 ms

jura-raised-beach-stones-4.jpg

jura-raised-beach-stones-4.jpg

221 ms

171a5-burns-monument-sun.jpg

171a5-burns-monument-sun.jpg

233 ms

madras-1.jpg

madras-1.jpg

167 ms

ken-cockburn-april-2022.jpg

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265 ms

9-what-is-a-pine.jpg

9-what-is-a-pine.jpg

217 ms

global-print.css

global-print.css

65 ms

font

font

123 ms

g.gif

g.gif

81 ms

remote-login.php

remote-login.php

110 ms

g.gif

g.gif

79 ms

g.gif

g.gif

79 ms

Genericons.svg

Genericons.svg

41 ms

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8AAnjaY2BgYGQAgosrjpwF0ZcUq9bCaABTzgdAAAA=

2 ms

actionbar.css

actionbar.css

2 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

18 ms

Accessibility Review

kencockburn.co.uk accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kencockburn.co.uk 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

kencockburn.co.uk 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

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

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 Kencockburn.co.uk 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 Kencockburn.co.uk 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

kencockburn.co.uk

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