Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

maryland-paranormal.com

Maryland Paranormal Research ® | Paranormal explorations through science, technology and parapsychology

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

514 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

94 ms

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Maryland Paranormal Research ® conducts technical investigations of hauntings and paranormal phenomena.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maryland-paranormal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 514 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

maryland-paranormal.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.188

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

maryland-paranormal.com

514 ms

style.css

120 ms

css

33 ms

style.css

189 ms

wonderpluginsliderengine.css

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Maryland-paranormal.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Marylandparanormalresearch.disqus.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (637 ms) belongs to the original domain Maryland-paranormal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.6 MB (39%)

Content Size

9.2 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Maryland-paranormal.com main page is 9.2 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. 80% 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 8.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 59.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 3.4 MB

  • Original 8.8 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Obviously, Maryland Paranormal needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.4 MB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 101.9 kB

  • Original 322.8 kB
  • After minification 322.8 kB
  • After compression 220.9 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 101.9 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 87.5 kB
  • After minification 87.5 kB
  • After compression 49.9 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. Maryland-paranormal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.6 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (43%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maryland Paranormal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

maryland-paranormal.com accessibility score

80

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.

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

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

Best Practices

maryland-paranormal.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

maryland-paranormal.com SEO score

71

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Maryland-paranormal.com 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 Maryland-paranormal.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

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