Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

martinhicks.net

Martin Hicks - Freelance developer and AWS certified consultant in Manchester, UK

Page Load Speed

861 ms in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

604 ms

Page Rendered

225 ms

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About Website

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I'm a freelance developer and AWS consultant. I speicalise in web and mobile app development, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Martinhicks.net page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 829 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

martinhicks.net performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

martinhicks.net

32 ms

martinhicks.dev

268 ms

js

89 ms

style.css

12 ms

martin-hicks-3.png

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Martinhicks.net, 86% (12 requests) were made to Martinhicks.dev and 7% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (283 ms) relates to the external source Martinhicks.dev.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

299.1 kB

After Optimization

240.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Martinhicks.net main page is 299.1 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 267.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 5.2 kB, which is 19% 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 20.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 267.2 kB
  • After minification 228.7 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. Obviously, Martin Hicks needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Martin Hicks. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

martinhicks.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

martinhicks.net 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

SEO Factors

martinhicks.net SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Martinhicks.net 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 Martinhicks.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Martin Hicks. 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: