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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

michaelmccallister.com

Michael McCallister - Empowering People, Making Sense of Tech

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

355 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

734 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Michael Mc Callister content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about michaelmccallister.com

Michael McCallister writes books and articles about technology generally and software. Latest: Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules with Carole Jelen. Also co-authored WordPress in Depth with Bud...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Michaelmccallister.com page load time and found that the first response time was 355 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

michaelmccallister.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.michaelmccallister.com

355 ms

style.min.css

85 ms

style.min.css

76 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

92 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Michaelmccallister.com, 25% (13 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to 2.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (355 ms) belongs to the original domain Michaelmccallister.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 110.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

473.1 kB

After Optimization

362.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Michaelmccallister.com main page is 473.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 150.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 96.3 kB

  • Original 121.5 kB
  • After minification 119.3 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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 96.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 150.8 kB
  • After minification 148.2 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. Michael Mc Callister images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 107.5 kB
  • After minification 107.2 kB
  • After compression 96.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 938 B

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 93.3 kB
  • After compression 92.3 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. Michaelmccallister.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (66%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Michael Mc Callister. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.michaelmccallister.com

www.michaelmccallister.com

355 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

85 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

76 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

92 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

91 ms

indieweb.css

indieweb.css

66 ms

style.css

style.css

62 ms

pwaforwp-main.min.css

pwaforwp-main.min.css

61 ms

social-logos.min.css

social-logos.min.css

92 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

93 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

60 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

92 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

112 ms

image-cdn.js

image-cdn.js

47 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

100 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

128 ms

functions.js

functions.js

76 ms

facebook-embed.min.js

facebook-embed.min.js

127 ms

twitter-timeline.min.js

twitter-timeline.min.js

131 ms

pwaforwp-video.js

pwaforwp-video.js

75 ms

pwaforwp-download.js

pwaforwp-download.js

77 ms

www.michaelmccallister.com

www.michaelmccallister.com

292 ms

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e-202409.js

128 ms

queuehandler.min.js

queuehandler.min.js

130 ms

sharing.min.js

sharing.min.js

130 ms

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149 ms

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51 ms

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219 ms

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33 ms

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80 ms

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166 ms

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259 ms

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198 ms

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30 ms

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54 ms

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93 ms

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71 ms

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46 ms

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248 ms

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63 ms

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54 ms

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43 ms

rlt-proxy.js

rlt-proxy.js

22 ms

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99 ms

Accessibility Review

michaelmccallister.com accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

michaelmccallister.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

michaelmccallister.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Michaelmccallister.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 Michaelmccallister.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

michaelmccallister.com

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