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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

underdown.org

A children's book editor's site: writing, illustrating, publishing children's books

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

94 ms

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About Website

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A children's book editor's site, with articles about writing, illustrating, and publishing children's books, as well as sample materials from The C.I. Guide to Publishing Children's Books.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Underdown.org page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

underdown.org performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

underdown.org

247 ms

underdown.org

316 ms

pccss.css

80 ms

adsbygoogle.js

102 ms

ga.js

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Underdown.org, 18% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 18% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (316 ms) belongs to the original domain Underdown.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

363.3 kB

After Optimization

348.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Underdown.org main page is 363.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 254.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.9 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 502 B

  • Original 90.0 kB
  • After minification 89.5 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. Underdown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 254.0 kB
  • After minification 254.0 kB
  • After compression 253.9 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 31 B

  • Original 114 B
  • After minification 85 B
  • After compression 83 B

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. Underdown.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31 B or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Underdown. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

underdown.org

underdown.org

247 ms

underdown.org

underdown.org

316 ms

pccss.css

pccss.css

80 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

102 ms

ga.js

ga.js

89 ms

hu-portrait-2015.jpg

hu-portrait-2015.jpg

227 ms

fatline.gif

fatline.gif

235 ms

purple-crayon-logo.jpg

purple-crayon-logo.jpg

235 ms

cig3e.jpg

cig3e.jpg

237 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

271 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

underdown.org accessibility score

81

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

underdown.org 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

underdown.org SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Underdown.org 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 Underdown.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

underdown.org

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