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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

richard-fidler.com

Richard Fidler: Richard Fidler: Writer - Broadcaster

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

878 ms

Page Rendered

635 ms

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About Website

Visit richard-fidler.com now to see the best up-to-date Richard Fidler content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about richard-fidler.com

The personal website of writer and broadcaster Richard Fidler, host of 'Conversations with Richard Fidler', author of 'Ghost Empire', co-author of 'Saga Land'.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richard-fidler.com page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

richard-fidler.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.richard-fidler.com

53 ms

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23 ms

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modern.js

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Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Richard-fidler.com, 39% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 24% (9 requests) were made to Assets.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (526 ms) relates to the external source Images.squarespace-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 373.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

9.7 MB

After Optimization

9.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Richard-fidler.com main page is 9.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 78.4 kB

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 85.5 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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 78.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 290.4 kB

  • Original 8.6 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Richard Fidler images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 980.2 kB
  • After minification 980.2 kB
  • After compression 975.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richard Fidler. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.richard-fidler.com

www.richard-fidler.com

53 ms

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Accessibility Review

richard-fidler.com accessibility score

89

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

richard-fidler.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

richard-fidler.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 Richard-fidler.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 Richard-fidler.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

richard-fidler.com

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