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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

marktwainproject.org

Mark Twain Project :: Home

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

87 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marktwainproject.org page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marktwainproject.org performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marktwainproject.org

169 ms

www.marktwainproject.org

975 ms

mtp.css

127 ms

print.css

189 ms

lightbox.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Marktwainproject.org, 10% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (975 ms) belongs to the original domain Marktwainproject.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 159.1 kB (25%)

Content Size

635.7 kB

After Optimization

476.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marktwainproject.org main page is 635.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 427.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.7 kB, which is 18% 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 11.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 306 B

  • Original 427.0 kB
  • After minification 426.7 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. Mark Twain Project images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 73.9 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 77.0 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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 73.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 73.8 kB

  • Original 87.1 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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. Marktwainproject.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (21%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mark Twain Project. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

marktwainproject.org

marktwainproject.org

169 ms

www.marktwainproject.org

www.marktwainproject.org

975 ms

mtp.css

mtp.css

127 ms

print.css

print.css

189 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

192 ms

behaviour.js

behaviour.js

194 ms

utils.js

utils.js

259 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

323 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

195 ms

ga.js

ga.js

49 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

91 ms

go_button.gif

go_button.gif

94 ms

arrow_search.gif

arrow_search.gif

93 ms

button_citations.gif

button_citations.gif

92 ms

NEH-Preferred-Seal820.jpg

NEH-Preferred-Seal820.jpg

345 ms

home_userguide.gif

home_userguide.gif

92 ms

home_image01.gif

home_image01.gif

152 ms

home_image02.gif

home_image02.gif

156 ms

button_support.gif

button_support.gif

154 ms

button_buy.gif

button_buy.gif

155 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

marktwainproject.org accessibility score

48

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

marktwainproject.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

marktwainproject.org SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Marktwainproject.org 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 Marktwainproject.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

marktwainproject.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mark Twain Project. 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: