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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

themiddleshelf.org

THE MIDDLE SHELF - A SCIFI AND FANTASY REVIEWS BLOG - ON THE MIDDLE SHELF

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

312 ms

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About Website

Visit themiddleshelf.org now to see the best up-to-date THE MIDDLE SHELF content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about themiddleshelf.org

The Middle Shelf is a science fiction and fantasy books reviews blog, with regular reviews of diverse novels. Discover the great, unusual and diverse speculative fiction you were looking for!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themiddleshelf.org page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themiddleshelf.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,680 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themiddleshelf.org

161 ms

www.themiddleshelf.org

499 ms

sites.css

11 ms

fancybox.css

20 ms

social-icons.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Themiddleshelf.org, 47% (34 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Themiddleshelf.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themiddleshelf.org main page is 2.4 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. 75% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 69.6 kB

  • Original 87.4 kB
  • After minification 85.8 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 69.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. THE MIDDLE SHELF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 533.5 kB
  • After minification 533.5 kB
  • After compression 524.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 54.9 kB
  • After compression 53.0 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. Themiddleshelf.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (50%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of THE MIDDLE SHELF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

themiddleshelf.org

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161 ms

www.themiddleshelf.org

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499 ms

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11 ms

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20 ms

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21 ms

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106 ms

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18 ms

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20 ms

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19 ms

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34 ms

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21 ms

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23 ms

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184 ms

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Accessibility Review

themiddleshelf.org accessibility score

80

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Best Practices

themiddleshelf.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

themiddleshelf.org SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Themiddleshelf.org 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 Themiddleshelf.org 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

themiddleshelf.org

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