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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

schmittysays.com

Schmitty the Weather Dog - A Pup with a Nose for the Weather

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

768 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Schmitty Says content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about schmittysays.com

The official site of Schmitty the Weather Dog - author of "Schmitty The Weather Dog:Daydream", Schmitty brings science to kids!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Schmittysays.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

schmittysays.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,430 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

schmittysays.com

193 ms

schmittytheweatherdog.com

848 ms

bootstrap.min.css

316 ms

style.css

538 ms

jquery.js

572 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Schmittysays.com, 74% (37 requests) were made to Schmittytheweatherdog.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Schmittytheweatherdog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 587.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Schmittysays.com main page is 2.3 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 21.8 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 4.0 kB, which is 15% 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 21.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Schmitty Says images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 211.3 kB

  • Original 345.0 kB
  • After minification 344.4 kB
  • After compression 133.7 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 211.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 327.2 kB

  • Original 394.0 kB
  • After minification 383.2 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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. Schmittysays.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 327.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (33%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Schmitty Says. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

schmittysays.com

schmittysays.com

193 ms

schmittytheweatherdog.com

schmittytheweatherdog.com

848 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

316 ms

style.css

style.css

538 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

572 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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496 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

585 ms

responsive-slides.js

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586 ms

custom-scripts.js

custom-scripts.js

355 ms

rve.min.js

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435 ms

analytics.js

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5 ms

collect

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68 ms

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239 ms

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406 ms

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80 ms

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283 ms

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369 ms

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393 ms

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232 ms

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382 ms

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363 ms

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427 ms

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461 ms

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624 ms

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619 ms

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656 ms

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546 ms

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544 ms

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636 ms

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30 ms

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583 ms

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705 ms

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110 ms

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185 ms

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76 ms

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9 ms

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21 ms

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53 ms

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base.js

82 ms

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39 ms

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41 ms

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33 ms

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36 ms

Accessibility Review

schmittysays.com accessibility score

91

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Best Practices

schmittysays.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

schmittysays.com SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

schmittysays.com

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