Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

shannonkao.com

Shannon Kao

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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About Website

Welcome to shannonkao.com homepage info - get ready to check Shannon Kao best content right away, or after learning these important things about shannonkao.com

Shannon is a Seattle-based comic artist and illustrator who is interested in uncanny places and odd stories.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shannonkao.com page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 1.6 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

shannonkao.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.573

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shannonkao.com

167 ms

88 ms

index.css

66 ms

jquery-1.7.2.js

120 ms

index.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shannonkao.com, 62% (50 requests) were made to Web.mit.edu and 10% (8 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (839 ms) relates to the external source Web.mit.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 819.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Shannonkao.com main page is 5.7 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 16.5 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 11.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 226.5 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Shannon Kao images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 476.8 kB

  • Original 646.4 kB
  • After minification 534.8 kB
  • After compression 169.6 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 476.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 104.8 kB

  • Original 118.6 kB
  • After minification 118.2 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. Shannonkao.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (19%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

62

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shannon Kao. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shannonkao.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

shannonkao.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

shannonkao.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shannonkao.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 Shannonkao.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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