Audit Result

UUID: 019e5d4b-775b-7128-81bd-223fb83d0a4f

www.softwarepragmatism.com

https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/

Scanned 3 months ago

85
Excellent Score
39 total checks
Passed
28
Warnings
10
Errors
1

Meta Information

  • Title Tag Warning

    Found 26 characters. Keep title between 30 and 60 characters.

    Fix: Add a unique <title> tag describing the main page intent in 30-60 characters.

  • Found 156 characters. Good snippet length.

  • Canonical found: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com

  • Favicon Pass

    Favicon found and reachable: /media/system/images/joomla-favicon.svg (HTTP 200).

    Favicon
  • Viewport configured: width=device-width, initial-scale=1

  • HTML Lang Pass

    Language declared as "en-gb".

Content Structure

  • H1 Tag Error

    No H1 heading found.

    Fix: Use a single, descriptive <h1> that states the primary purpose of the page.

  • Valid heading flow across 15 headings.

  • All 15 images include alt text.

Technical Optimization

  • HTTPS Pass

    Page is served over HTTPS.

  • 1 HTTPS hardening issues detected.

    • • Could not probe the HTTP version of this page.
    • • Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains

    Fix: Set Strict-Transport-Security with a long max-age, add includeSubDomains, and redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS.

  • Core security headers were detected.

    Full HTTP headers (26)
    • • alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
    • • cache-control: no-cache
    • • cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC
    • • cf-ray: a011a372d8041459-IAD
    • • content-encoding: zstd
    • • content-security-policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' https:; style-src 'self' https:; img-src 'self' data: https:; font-src 'self' data: https:; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; form-action 'self';
    • • content-security-policy-report-only: frame-ancestors 'self'
    • • content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    • • cross-origin-opener-policy: same-origin
    • • date: Mon, 25 May 2026 04:01:22 GMT
    • • expect-ct: max-age=86400, enforce
    • • expires: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT
    • • last-modified: Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:24 GMT
    • • link: <https://www.softwarepragmatism.com>; rel="canonical",<https://www.softwarepragmatism.com?tmpl=component>; rel="alternate"; type="text/html",<https://www.softwarepragmatism.com?start=7>; rel="next",</media/templates/site/cassiopeia/css/global/fonts-local_roboto.min.css?24ea76>; rel="preload"; as="style"
    • • nel: {"report_to":"cf-nel","success_fraction":0.0,"max_age":604800}
    • • pragma: no-cache
    • • referrer-policy: same-origin
    • • report-to: {"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=wWvXqMhjLmx5nz7oJWb1i8P%2BudTkHDU2LqE8wsNX9K7rE6cTFTqjB6fv0MAdydU2vChjfizEhavMJtuP4OtjeEQylkDMTanPBuM4SHOQcA8R3U%2BgdvIaQIn20%2Bl78Mu5xirSHMTwFlgd79S6pseWkYMdIm0fsYqTiQ%3D%3D"}]}
    • • server: cloudflare
    • • server-timing: cfCacheStatus;desc="DYNAMIC" cfEdge;dur=6,cfOrigin;dur=231
    • • speculation-rules: "/cdn-cgi/speculation"
    • • strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
    • • vary: Accept-Encoding Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
    • • x-content-type-options: nosniff
    • • x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
    • • x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
  • Content Security Policy looks restrictive and avoids common unsafe directives.

    • • Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' https:; style-src 'self' https:; img-src 'self' data: https:; font-src 'self' data: https:; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; form-action 'self';
  • No first-party cookies were set during the initial page load.

  • Server response headers do not expose version tokens.

  • Domain appears to be behind Cloudflare.

    • • server: cloudflare
    • • cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC
    • • cf-ray: a011a372d8041459-IAD
  • Loaded in 0.48s (perceived).

  • 3 scripts and 7 styles may block rendering.

    • • script: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/js/c02443403a883242cc83b2986ebb4f7606182be4be208b164c58eaea977f64eb.js
    • • script: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/js/c02443403a883242cc83b2986ebb4f7688e5925e560704c316e5a429301a1df1.js
    • • script: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/js/c02443403a883242cc83b2986ebb4f764defd9d7bae6f447ae7197887ed8ce96.js
    • • style: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/system/css/joomla-fontawesome.min.css?24ea76
    • • style: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/css/4fb5d6798a4a19ed1ce36d3ea7e32ab622bf7d52d2f509fcdc5cdaa666bb30db.css
    • • style: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/css/4fb5d6798a4a19ed1ce36d3ea7e32ab6c548ea9a4eeb63edc5da0820759e3c36.css
    • • style: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/css/4fb5d6798a4a19ed1ce36d3ea7e32ab6b54ccba5f657d01062b4e2a3f96bb2c7.css
    • • style: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/css/4fb5d6798a4a19ed1ce36d3ea7e32ab67993179b781c6aacec81893586664f01.css
    • • style: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/com_jchoptimize/cache/css/4fb5d6798a4a19ed1ce36d3ea7e32ab68af7dddc27775e8c5c2f23b269a5814e.css
    • • style: https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/media/templates/site/cassiopeia/css/global/fonts-local_roboto.min.css?24ea76

    Fix: Defer non-critical scripts and inline critical CSS to improve first paint speed.

  • Text-like assets appear compressed.

  • Robots.txt Pass

    Found robots.txt (200).

  • Found sitemap (200) at https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/component/osmap/?view=xml&id=1&format=xml.

  • No robots meta tag defined.

    Fix: Add <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> (or the intended directive) in <head>.

Accessibility Basics

  • All 1 controls are labeled.

  • Landmarks Pass

    Header, nav, main, and footer landmarks are present.

  • Tap Target Size Warning

    18 interactive elements appear smaller than 48px.

    • • a.btn.btn-sm (management) - 103x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (management) - 103x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (deployment) - 94x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (performance) - 100x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (Laziness As A Virtue) - 148x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (Expect The Unexpected) - 168x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (automation) - 92x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (deployment) - 94x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (performance) - 100x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (Expect The Unexpected) - 168x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (SQL) - 45x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (databases) - 85x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (automation) - 92x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (deployment) - 94x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (performance) - 100x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (HTML5) - 65x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (API) - 40x31px
    • • a.btn.btn-sm (Docker) - 62x31px

    Fix: Increase target size to at least 48x48 CSS pixels for touch interactions.

Social & Rich Results

  • Core Open Graph tags are present.

  • og:image is present and absolute.

    Open Graph Image
  • twitter:card set to summary_large_image.

  • JSON-LD schema detected.

  • PWA Metadata Warning

    Manifest or Apple touch icon is missing.

    Fix: Link your web app manifest and apple-touch-icon for improved install/share experiences.

  • 1 social preview quality issues detected.

    • • ISSUE: Failed to fetch preview image: network error.
    • • GUIDELINE: Optimal og:title length: 40-60 characters (acceptable: 10-70).
    • • GUIDELINE: Optimal og:description length: 110-160 characters (acceptable: 50-200).
    • • GUIDELINE: Optimal preview image size: 1200x630 pixels.
    • • GUIDELINE: Optimal preview image aspect ratio: 1.91:1.
    • • GUIDELINE: Optimal preview image file size: under 5 MB.
    • • GUIDELINE: Recommended twitter:card: summary_large_image.

    Fix: Use absolute OG/Twitter URLs, keep metadata lengths in recommended ranges, and provide a preview image near 1200x630 under 5MB.

Links Analysis

  • Checked 67 links. No broken internal links found.

  • External Links Warning

    3 external links returned errors or timed out.

    • • https://player.fm/series/the-real-python-podcast/evaluating-python-packages-celebrating-20-years-of-pycon-us (HTTP 403)
    • • https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softwarepragmatism.com%2F&title= (HTTP 403)
    • • https://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softwarepragmatism.com%2F&t= (HTTP 429)

    Fix: Replace dead external URLs or point to working alternatives.

  • Link Format Warning

    2 links are empty, invalid, or placeholder-only.

    • • href="#" text="1"
    • • href="javascript:window.print()" text="Print"

    Fix: Replace empty/#/javascript href values with real destinations or use buttons for non-navigation actions.

Performance & Runtime

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 0.48s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001.

  • Total Blocking Time estimate: 3ms.

  • No failed CSS/JS/image/font/media requests detected.

  • 7 JavaScript runtime issues detected.

    • • Applying inline style violates the following Content Security Policy directive 'style-src 'self' https:'. Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-K2omyOwnc/AXhJqZ2qYIgcE43KMmDw169fj8Gxecswg='), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution. The action has been blocked. [https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/:38]
    • • Applying inline style violates the following Content Security Policy directive 'style-src 'self' https:'. Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-9mxbkmPz02AogsF+ZbPyGR5+MVirZdJxHeJRUSWHB8U='), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution. The action has been blocked. [https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/:39]
    • • Applying inline style violates the following Content Security Policy directive 'style-src 'self' https:'. Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-6p3M4bAMzDnIXNrOfaBzvnNRlpBYMn+CmwV0wugW9G0='), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution. The action has been blocked. [https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/:40]
    • • Executing inline script violates the following Content Security Policy directive 'script-src 'self' https:'. Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-NgkxMUUBxpLO1w8yLrwbshNpINP8A3/lTjQmJ5oERiI='), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution. The action has been blocked. [https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/:736]
    • • Executing inline script violates the following Content Security Policy directive 'script-src 'self' https:'. Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-ffCv18EpuOnFHMBXuaAbQX9p0gawSXOlxUMsdSQo+48='), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution. The action has been blocked. [https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js:1]
    • • Need to define a global `var sc_project` and `var security code`, or else call record_pageview with these arguments [https://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js:3]
    • • Executing inline script violates the following Content Security Policy directive 'script-src 'self' https:'. Either the 'unsafe-inline' keyword, a hash ('sha256-TDnnIzzFbs1EKVbeSA0H0mHWaMRASx9r/TaMFDM+F5A='), or a nonce ('nonce-...') is required to enable inline execution. The action has been blocked. [https://www.softwarepragmatism.com/cdn-cgi/scripts/7d0fa10a/cloudflare-static/rocket-loader.min.js:1]

    Fix: Fix JS files returning 404/failed requests and resolve the listed runtime exceptions.