Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

universalmusings.com

Universal Musings | Proud home of sarcasm, snark and inappropriate (sometimes really dark) humor

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Universalmusings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

universalmusings.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

universalmusings.com

2081 ms

style.css

130 ms

genericons.css

179 ms

jetpack.css

202 ms

jquery.js

259 ms

Our browser made a total of 129 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Universalmusings.com, 16% (21 requests) were made to Pixel.wp.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Universalmusings.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 921.5 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Universalmusings.com main page is 2.2 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. 80% 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 976.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 91.9 kB

  • Original 119.9 kB
  • After minification 117.1 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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 91.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 45.5 kB

  • Original 976.0 kB
  • After minification 930.4 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. Universal Musings images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 479.7 kB

  • Original 716.0 kB
  • After minification 681.6 kB
  • After compression 236.2 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 479.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 304.4 kB

  • Original 400.4 kB
  • After minification 389.5 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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. Universalmusings.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 304.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (56%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Universal Musings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

universalmusings.com 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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

universalmusings.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

universalmusings.com SEO score

54

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

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 Universalmusings.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 Universalmusings.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 Universal Musings. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: