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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

rickzullo.com

Italy Website for Travel Advice by Rick Zullo - Rick's Rome

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

836 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

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About Website

Welcome to rickzullo.com homepage info - get ready to check Rick Zullo best content for Italy right away, or after learning these important things about rickzullo.com

Rick's Italy Website for Travel Advice to Rome and beyond. The experience of an American expat living the Italian lifestyle and sharing tips.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rickzullo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 836 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

rickzullo.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rickzullo.com

836 ms

css

37 ms

css

41 ms

public.css

35 ms

hybrid-homepage2.css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Rickzullo.com, 13% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (836 ms) belongs to the original domain Rickzullo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 719.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rickzullo.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 94.2 kB
  • After minification 92.7 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 73.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Rick Zullo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 176.8 kB

  • Original 294.4 kB
  • After minification 294.1 kB
  • After compression 117.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 176.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 454.3 kB

  • Original 549.7 kB
  • After minification 542.1 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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. Rickzullo.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 454.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (70%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rick Zullo. 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 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rickzullo.com

rickzullo.com

836 ms

css

css

37 ms

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css

41 ms

public.css

public.css

35 ms

hybrid-homepage2.css

hybrid-homepage2.css

92 ms

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front.css

90 ms

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thrive_flat.css

96 ms

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style.css

86 ms

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87 ms

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86 ms

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120 ms

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135 ms

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style.css

120 ms

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121 ms

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genericons.css

159 ms

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jetpack.css

122 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

199 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

156 ms

compat.min.js

compat.min.js

156 ms

snippet.js

snippet.js

78 ms

pinit.js

pinit.js

25 ms

thrive_content_builder_frontend.min.js

thrive_content_builder_frontend.min.js

186 ms

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devicepx-jetpack.js

64 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

99 ms

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wpgroho.js

242 ms

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243 ms

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frontend.min.js

243 ms

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243 ms

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7 ms

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195 ms

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analytics.js

125 ms

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367 ms

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114 ms

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60 ms

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367 ms

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367 ms

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370 ms

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371 ms

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364 ms

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368 ms

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12 ms

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307 ms

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255 ms

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256 ms

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247 ms

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128 ms

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129 ms

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53 ms

Accessibility Review

rickzullo.com accessibility score

84

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

rickzullo.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

rickzullo.com SEO score

86

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

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

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 Rickzullo.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 Rickzullo.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

rickzullo.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rick Zullo. 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: