Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

kovidgoyal.net

kovidgoyal.net

Page Load Speed

568 ms in total

First Response

71 ms

Resources Loaded

403 ms

Page Rendered

94 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kovidgoyal.net page load time and found that the first response time was 71 ms and then it took 497 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kovidgoyal.net performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.189

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kovidgoyal.net

71 ms

kovidgoyal.net

112 ms

VisualDocumentAPI.js

64 ms

engine.js

74 ms

index.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Kovidgoyal.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (112 ms) belongs to the original domain Kovidgoyal.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

39.2 kB

After Optimization

32.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Kovidgoyal.net main page is 39.2 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 31.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 6.5 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 4.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 31.5 kB
  • After minification 30.2 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. Kovidgoyal images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 771 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 942 B
  • After compression 447 B

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. Kovidgoyal.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 771 B or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (31%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kovidgoyal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kovidgoyal.net accessibility score

56

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

kovidgoyal.net 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

kovidgoyal.net SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kovidgoyal.net 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 Kovidgoyal.net main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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