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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

thefog.com

Michael Merrett Homepage

Page Load Speed

632 ms in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

186 ms

Page Rendered

382 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefog.com page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 568 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefog.com performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefog.com

64 ms

michaelmerrett.com

21 ms

michaelmerrett.com

39 ms

watermark1.jpg

37 ms

LOGO.jpg

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thefog.com, 93% (14 requests) were made to Michaelmerrett.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (64 ms) belongs to the original domain Thefog.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.3 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Thefog.com main page is 2.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 6.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Thefog images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thefog. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thefog.com

thefog.com

64 ms

michaelmerrett.com

michaelmerrett.com

21 ms

michaelmerrett.com

michaelmerrett.com

39 ms

watermark1.jpg

watermark1.jpg

37 ms

LOGO.jpg

LOGO.jpg

25 ms

mikedrums.jpg

mikedrums.jpg

50 ms

musingscover.jpg

musingscover.jpg

26 ms

klaatucover.jpg

klaatucover.jpg

36 ms

fogcover.jpg

fogcover.jpg

22 ms

sid.jpg

sid.jpg

35 ms

btn_cart_LG.gif

btn_cart_LG.gif

26 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

34 ms

CDCover.jpg

CDCover.jpg

56 ms

justbeyourself.jpg

justbeyourself.jpg

46 ms

windsofchange.jpg

windsofchange.jpg

39 ms

Accessibility Review

thefog.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

thefog.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thefog.com SEO score

92

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thefog.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 Thefog.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

thefog.com

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