Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

paulspain.com

Technology & Business Commentator, CEO: Paul Spain - Auckland, NZ

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

707 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

434 ms

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About Website

Visit paulspain.com now to see the best up-to-date Paul Spain content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about paulspain.com

Paul Spain is an Auckland, NZ based Founder & CEO, who is known as a Technology & Business commentator featured on TV, Radio, Podcasts and Online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paulspain.com page load time and found that the first response time was 707 ms and then it took 2 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

paulspain.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.278

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paulspain.com

707 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

31 ms

css

144 ms

css

213 ms

style.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Paulspain.com, 26% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) belongs to the original domain Paulspain.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 713.0 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

379.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Paulspain.com main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 452.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 22.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 255.5 kB
  • After minification 233.4 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. Paul Spain images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 266.3 kB

  • Original 353.6 kB
  • After minification 311.3 kB
  • After compression 87.4 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 266.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 402.2 kB

  • Original 452.1 kB
  • After minification 399.3 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. Paulspain.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 402.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (69%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Paul Spain. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

paulspain.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

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.

Best Practices

paulspain.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

paulspain.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Paulspain.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 Paulspain.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 Paul Spain. 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: