Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

macnewbie.co.uk

MacNewbie.co.uk - Learning by doing. Reviewing Apps for fun! - Mac (and don't tell anybody but Windows too!) newbie learning my way with technolo...

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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About Website

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Macnewbie Blog is all about IT-related technology, news, events, gossip and what’s happening in this fast-changing world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macnewbie.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

macnewbie.co.uk performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macnewbie.co.uk

1613 ms

style.css

99 ms

style.min.css

181 ms

styles.css

183 ms

jquery.min.js

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Macnewbie.co.uk, 25% (17 requests) were made to Apfelpage.de and 3% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Macnewbie.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

443.8 kB

After Optimization

363.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Macnewbie.co.uk main page is 443.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 272.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 17.3 kB, which is 29% 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 50.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 272.7 kB
  • After minification 248.2 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. Mac Newbie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 85.4 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 25.6 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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. Macnewbie.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (66%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mac Newbie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

macnewbie.co.uk accessibility score

71

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

macnewbie.co.uk 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

macnewbie.co.uk SEO score

57

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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