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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

shepline.com

T E Shepherd | author | illustrator | digital designer

Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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

T E Shepherd is the author of magic realism stories set in our, or closely-related, worlds. His debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, was released in 2012. His second novel, and the first in the Imagina...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shepline.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shepline.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shepline.com

1340 ms

all.css

47 ms

style.css

390 ms

style.css

332 ms

styles.css

326 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Shepline.com, 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Allianceindependentauthors.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Shepline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 273.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.2 MB

After Optimization

7.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shepline.com main page is 7.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 113.3 kB

  • Original 136.9 kB
  • After minification 130.9 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 113.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 81.0 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Shepline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 440.6 kB
  • After minification 440.5 kB
  • After compression 384.1 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 56.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 132.4 kB
  • After minification 132.4 kB
  • After compression 109.6 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. Shepline.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (63%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shepline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

shepline.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

shepline.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

shepline.com SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Shepline.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 Shepline.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

shepline.com

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