Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

stephenmerrigan.com

Search Engine Marketing Freelancer, Google Ads Freelancer and Copywriter Stephen Merrigan

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

560 ms

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Website and blog for Online Marketing Strategist, Search Marketing Strategist, and Online Copywriter Stephen Merrigan.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stephenmerrigan.com page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stephenmerrigan.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stephenmerrigan.com

155 ms

www.stephenmerrigan.com

60 ms

www.stephenmerrigan.com

207 ms

2975350028-css_bundle_v2.css

131 ms

adsbygoogle.js

611 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Stephenmerrigan.com, 17% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Blogger.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source 4.bp.blogspot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 454.5 kB (58%)

Content Size

782.1 kB

After Optimization

327.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Stephenmerrigan.com main page is 782.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 375.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 54.4 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 41.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 198.3 kB
  • After minification 177.7 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. Stephen Merrigan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 81.6 kB

  • Original 153.7 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 72.1 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 81.6 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 311.1 kB

  • Original 375.7 kB
  • After minification 375.5 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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. Stephenmerrigan.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (49%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stephen Merrigan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stephenmerrigan.com accessibility score

66

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

stephenmerrigan.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

stephenmerrigan.com SEO score

93

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stephenmerrigan.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Stephenmerrigan.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 Stephen Merrigan. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: