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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

writers.com

Online Writing Classes, Learning, and Community | Writers.com

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writers.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.13

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writers.com

271 ms

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175 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

214 ms

dashicons.min.css

272 ms

extra.min.css

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Writers.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Writers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 499.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Writers.com main page is 3.5 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. 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 262.7 kB

  • Original 319.0 kB
  • After minification 311.9 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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 262.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 235.3 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Writers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 204.4 kB
  • After minification 204.4 kB
  • After compression 203.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 16.2 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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. Writers.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (85%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 38 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

writers.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

writers.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

writers.com SEO score

90

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