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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

mattsimon.net

The website of Mr. Matt Simon - Home

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

884 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Matt Simon content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mattsimon.net

Matt Simon, author and science writer

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mattsimon.net page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 2.1 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

mattsimon.net performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mattsimon.net

197 ms

www.mattsimon.net

208 ms

sites.css

17 ms

fancybox.css

25 ms

social-icons.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Mattsimon.net, 41% (18 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (242 ms) belongs to the original domain Mattsimon.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.3 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mattsimon.net main page is 2.9 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 32.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Matt Simon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 435.7 kB
  • After minification 435.7 kB
  • After compression 427.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 394 B

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 40.7 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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. Mattsimon.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (50%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Matt Simon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mattsimon.net

mattsimon.net

197 ms

www.mattsimon.net

www.mattsimon.net

208 ms

sites.css

sites.css

17 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

25 ms

social-icons.css

social-icons.css

34 ms

main_style.css

main_style.css

94 ms

font.css

font.css

33 ms

font.css

font.css

34 ms

font.css

font.css

32 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

35 ms

stl.js

stl.js

31 ms

main.js

main.js

34 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

10 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

161 ms

custom.js

custom.js

159 ms

main-customer-accounts-site.js

main-customer-accounts-site.js

38 ms

page-1.png

page-1.png

196 ms

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542651577.jpg

199 ms

img-3878.jpg

img-3878.jpg

197 ms

cover_orig.jpg

cover_orig.jpg

196 ms

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plight-of-the-living-dead-cover-1.jpg

197 ms

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img-3149-1.jpg

197 ms

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screen-shot-2017-01-24-at-10-23-16-pm.png

200 ms

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wasp.png

199 ms

phone.png

phone.png

201 ms

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la-water-v7-00-06-21-05-still009-final_orig.jpg

201 ms

fox_orig.png

fox_orig.png

203 ms

ga.js

ga.js

52 ms

snowday262.js

snowday262.js

50 ms

211 ms

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regular.ttf

30 ms

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182 ms

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179 ms

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169 ms

regular.woff

regular.woff

30 ms

light.woff

light.woff

33 ms

bold.woff

bold.woff

31 ms

italic.woff

italic.woff

32 ms

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lightitalic.woff

32 ms

bolditalic.woff

bolditalic.woff

32 ms

tp2

tp2

121 ms

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175 ms

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174 ms

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6de0ce4d-9278-467b-b96f-c1f5f0a4c375.ttf

242 ms

Accessibility Review

mattsimon.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

mattsimon.net best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

mattsimon.net SEO score

85

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Mattsimon.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 Mattsimon.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

mattsimon.net

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