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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

saltwaterwitch.com

Chris Howard - Official Home of Chris Howard, Author & Illustrator

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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

Chris Howard - Official Home of Chris Howard author of Seaborn, Salvage, Nanowhere, Saltwater Witch, Sea Throne, Dryad, Winterdim, Heartless, Teller. I'm an illustrator with art in Shimmer, BuzzyMag, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saltwaterwitch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saltwaterwitch.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saltwaterwitch.com

43 ms

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73 ms

css

31 ms

bootstrap.min.css

44 ms

animate.min.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Saltwaterwitch.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Saltwaterwitch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 554.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

12.2 MB

After Optimization

11.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saltwaterwitch.com main page is 12.2 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. Images take 11.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.9 kB, which is 23% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 29.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 220.2 kB

  • Original 11.8 MB
  • After minification 11.6 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. Saltwaterwitch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 103.4 kB

  • Original 150.2 kB
  • After minification 143.4 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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 103.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 201.1 kB

  • Original 235.3 kB
  • After minification 231.9 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. Saltwaterwitch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 201.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (21%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

46

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saltwaterwitch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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43 ms

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73 ms

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44 ms

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42 ms

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52 ms

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73 ms

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54 ms

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Accessibility Review

saltwaterwitch.com accessibility score

76

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

saltwaterwitch.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

saltwaterwitch.com SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Saltwaterwitch.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 Saltwaterwitch.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

saltwaterwitch.com

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