Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 38

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

neilhalstead.com

Neil Halstead - Home

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

4.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Neilhalstead.com page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

neilhalstead.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,940 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

neilhalstead.com

174 ms

www.neilhalstead.com

837 ms

screen.css

130 ms

swfobject.js

5 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Neilhalstead.com, 8% (8 requests) were made to Oniracom.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to W.soundcloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Brushfirerecords.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (20%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Neilhalstead.com main page is 5.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 87.7 kB
  • After minification 80.7 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 65.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 167.2 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Neil Halstead images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 424.8 kB

  • Original 686.9 kB
  • After minification 683.0 kB
  • After compression 262.1 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 424.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 472.5 kB

  • Original 743.0 kB
  • After minification 734.9 kB
  • After compression 270.5 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. Neilhalstead.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 472.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (41%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

51

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Neil Halstead. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

neilhalstead.com accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

SEO Factors

neilhalstead.com SEO score

38

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

High

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Neilhalstead.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 Neilhalstead.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 description is not detected on the main page of Neil Halstead. 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: