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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

assist.aol.com

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Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

339 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

304 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Assist.aol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 339 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

assist.aol.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

assist.aol.com

339 ms

assist.aol.com

644 ms

guce.js

88 ms

cmpStub.min.js

179 ms

cmp.js

359 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Assist.aol.com, 62% (21 requests) were made to S.aolcdn.com and 15% (5 requests) were made to S.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (644 ms) belongs to the original domain Assist.aol.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

199.0 kB

After Optimization

151.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Assist.aol.com main page is 199.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 73.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 55.2 kB
  • After minification 54.4 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 37.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 73.0 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. Assist AOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 64.0 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 54.1 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 9.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 403 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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. Assist.aol.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (59%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Assist AOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

assist.aol.com

assist.aol.com

339 ms

assist.aol.com

assist.aol.com

644 ms

guce.js

guce.js

88 ms

cmpStub.min.js

cmpStub.min.js

179 ms

cmp.js

cmp.js

359 ms

main.css

main.css

112 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

135 ms

rapidworker-1.2.js

rapidworker-1.2.js

145 ms

rapid3.js

rapid3.js

119 ms

yRapid.min.js

yRapid.min.js

149 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

149 ms

common.js

common.js

145 ms

plus-store.js

plus-store.js

138 ms

footer.css

footer.css

155 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

109 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

154 ms

footer.js

footer.js

164 ms

p

p

269 ms

what_is_assist.png

what_is_assist.png

49 ms

Privacy_Rights_icon.png

Privacy_Rights_icon.png

50 ms

why_assist_by_aol.png

why_assist_by_aol.png

50 ms

logo-assist.svg

logo-assist.svg

50 ms

LOGO-assist_by_aol.png

LOGO-assist_by_aol.png

128 ms

hero_bg_agents.jpg

hero_bg_agents.jpg

130 ms

gtm_ns.html

gtm_ns.html

107 ms

gtm_ns.html

gtm_ns.html

134 ms

jquery.plugins.min.js

jquery.plugins.min.js

42 ms

consentRecord

consentRecord

77 ms

jquery.plugins.min.js

jquery.plugins.min.js

30 ms

nr-spa-1215.min.js

nr-spa-1215.min.js

61 ms

site.modules.comscore.min.js

site.modules.comscore.min.js

23 ms

site.modules.ga.min.js

site.modules.ga.min.js

14 ms

site.modules.fbPx.min.js

site.modules.fbPx.min.js

13 ms

site.modules.comscore.min.js

site.modules.comscore.min.js

15 ms

Accessibility Review

assist.aol.com accessibility score

75

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

assist.aol.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

assist.aol.com SEO score

93

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

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