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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

rickchristianson.wordpress.com

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Page Load Speed

736 ms in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

448 ms

Page Rendered

279 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rickchristianson.wordpress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 727 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rickchristianson.wordpress.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rickchristianson.wordpress.com

9 ms

rickchristianson.wordpress.com

27 ms

94 ms

style.css

97 ms

101 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Rickchristianson.wordpress.com, 19% (7 requests) were made to S2.wp.com and 17% (6 requests) were made to S0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (209 ms) relates to the external source Gravatar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

305.0 kB

After Optimization

228.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rickchristianson.wordpress.com main page is 305.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 149.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 104.3 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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 75.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 582 B

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 29.8 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. Rickchristianson Wordpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 805 B

  • Original 149.5 kB
  • After minification 149.5 kB
  • After compression 148.7 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 288 B

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Rickchristianson.wordpress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (61%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rickchristianson Wordpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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9 ms

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rickchristianson.wordpress.com

27 ms

94 ms

style.css

style.css

97 ms

101 ms

108 ms

102 ms

css

css

117 ms

105 ms

global.css

global.css

99 ms

111 ms

hovercards.min.js

hovercards.min.js

110 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

101 ms

gravatar-profile.css

gravatar-profile.css

101 ms

101 ms

101 ms

w.js

w.js

109 ms

global-print.css

global-print.css

2 ms

conf

conf

112 ms

ga.js

ga.js

25 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

18 ms

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6f30dfab7c974ba06edda5413489cecc

147 ms

wpcom-gray-white.png

wpcom-gray-white.png

8 ms

gravatar.com

gravatar.com

209 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHw.woff

S6u9w4BMUTPHh7USSwiPHw.woff

28 ms

S6u8w4BMUTPHh30AXC-s.woff

S6u8w4BMUTPHh30AXC-s.woff

26 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWA.woff

29 ms

ata.js

ata.js

18 ms

wpcom-mark.svg

wpcom-mark.svg

11 ms

g.gif

g.gif

22 ms

33 ms

g.gif

g.gif

18 ms

g.gif

g.gif

17 ms

actionbar.css

actionbar.css

2 ms

actionbar.js

actionbar.js

6 ms

Accessibility Review

rickchristianson.wordpress.com accessibility score

96

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

rickchristianson.wordpress.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

rickchristianson.wordpress.com SEO score

91

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Rickchristianson.wordpress.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 Rickchristianson.wordpress.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

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