Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

nicholasdevans.com

Nicholas D. Evans – Innovation & Digital Transformation Thought Leader, Consultant, Speaker & Author

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

775 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nicholasdevans.com page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nicholasdevans.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nicholasdevans.com

160 ms

www.nicholasdevans.com

1397 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

59 ms

styles.css

242 ms

settings.css

250 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Nicholasdevans.com, 11% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Nicholasdevans.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 472.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Nicholasdevans.com main page is 2.8 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. 75% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 181.1 kB

  • Original 223.0 kB
  • After minification 219.2 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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 181.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 278.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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, Nicholas D Evans needs image optimization as it can save up to 278.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 336.4 kB
  • After minification 336.4 kB
  • After compression 327.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 259.7 kB
  • After minification 259.0 kB
  • After compression 255.2 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. Nicholasdevans.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (54%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nicholas D Evans. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nicholasdevans.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

nicholasdevans.com SEO score

91

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 Nicholasdevans.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 Nicholasdevans.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 Nicholas D Evans. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: