Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

spencerlowell.com

Photographer of Science, Technology, Industry, Environment and People. - Spencer Lowell

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

880 ms

Page Rendered

474 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spencerlowell.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 1.4 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

spencerlowell.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.597

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spencerlowell.com

125 ms

www.spencerlowell.com

293 ms

site.min.css

40 ms

gtm.js

73 ms

9efe7daa-1cd1-4aff-a081-37ef58c7c150_Spencer_Lowell_Robots_001.jpg

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Spencerlowell.com, 61% (25 requests) were made to Images.prismic.io and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (402 ms) relates to the external source Images.prismic.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

302.5 kB

After Optimization

170.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Spencerlowell.com main page is 302.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 169.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 52.4 kB

  • Original 62.3 kB
  • After minification 62.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 52.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 60.7 kB
  • After minification 60.7 kB

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. Spencer Lowell images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 77.4 kB

  • Original 169.8 kB
  • After minification 169.8 kB
  • After compression 92.5 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 77.4 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Spencerlowell.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (27%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spencer Lowell. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

spencerlowell.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

spencerlowell.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

spencerlowell.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

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 doesn't use 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 Spencerlowell.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 Spencerlowell.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Spencer Lowell. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: