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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

marcusamaker.com

• Marcus Amaker, Poet Laureate: "Hold What Makes You Whole"

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

807 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

877 ms

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About Website

Visit marcusamaker.com now to see the best up-to-date Marcus Amaker content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about marcusamaker.com

Marcus Amaker is Charleston, SC's first Poet Laureate. He's also a graphic designer, electronic musician, web designer and mentor.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marcusamaker.com page load time and found that the first response time was 807 ms and then it took 3.3 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

marcusamaker.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marcusamaker.com

807 ms

css

42 ms

css

59 ms

css

62 ms

js

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Marcusamaker.com, 12% (11 requests) were made to S4.bcbits.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (807 ms) belongs to the original domain Marcusamaker.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 499.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marcusamaker.com main page is 5.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 97.9 kB
  • After minification 96.4 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 80.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 400.3 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Marcus Amaker images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 154.5 kB
  • After minification 154.1 kB
  • After compression 140.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 95.6 kB
  • After compression 91.6 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. Marcusamaker.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (63%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marcus Amaker. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 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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807 ms

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59 ms

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Accessibility Review

marcusamaker.com accessibility score

59

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

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

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

marcusamaker.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

marcusamaker.com 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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Marcusamaker.com 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 Marcusamaker.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

marcusamaker.com

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