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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

hydro.com

Hydro.com

Page Load Speed

62.4 sec in total

First Response

917 ms

Resources Loaded

39.9 sec

Page Rendered

21.6 sec

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About Website

Welcome to hydro.com homepage info - get ready to check Hydro best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about hydro.com

Hydro is a leading aluminium and renewable energy company that builds businesses and partnerships for a more sustainable future. We have 33,000 employees in more than 140 locations and 40 countries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hydro.com page load time and found that the first response time was 917 ms and then it took 61.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hydro.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.714

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hydro.com

917 ms

gtm.js

1142 ms

api.js

1586 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

483 ms

media.css

988 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Hydro.com, 9% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.9 sec) relates to the external source Gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (36%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hydro.com main page is 5.1 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 60.3 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.9 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 60.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 225.7 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Hydro images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 459.1 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 1.1 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 437.3 kB

  • Original 615.6 kB
  • After minification 559.5 kB
  • After compression 178.3 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. Hydro.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 437.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hydro. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hydro.com

hydro.com

917 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

1142 ms

api.js

api.js

1586 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

483 ms

media.css

media.css

988 ms

editmode.css

editmode.css

988 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1464 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

987 ms

fww5wtg.js

fww5wtg.js

2569 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

2530 ms

vendor.min.js

vendor.min.js

2225 ms

script.min.js

script.min.js

2225 ms

9865.js

9865.js

7018 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

7015 ms

recaptcha__de.js

recaptcha__de.js

15940 ms

hydro_logo.png

hydro_logo.png

14231 ms

hydrocom_q2_2017_feature_art_775x300px.jpg

hydrocom_q2_2017_feature_art_775x300px.jpg

10686 ms

signing-3_770x315.jpg

signing-3_770x315.jpg

10129 ms

al3-startpage_775x300.jpg

al3-startpage_775x300.jpg

10130 ms

hydro_tetra_tower_770x300.jpg

hydro_tetra_tower_770x300.jpg

10501 ms

ar2016_hydrocom_feature_ill.jpg

ar2016_hydrocom_feature_ill.jpg

10502 ms

ubc-recycling-hydro-neuss-shredded-scrap-parts_770x314.jpg

ubc-recycling-hydro-neuss-shredded-scrap-parts_770x314.jpg

10432 ms

climate_globe_770x314_v6.jpg

climate_globe_770x314_v6.jpg

10450 ms

w.jpg

w.jpg

10499 ms

q.jpg

q.jpg

10498 ms

e.jpg

e.jpg

10498 ms

r.jpg

r.jpg

10500 ms

dummy_globe.png

dummy_globe.png

10364 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9969 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

15303 ms

d

d

15342 ms

d

d

15342 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

6612 ms

Accessibility Review

hydro.com accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

hydro.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hydro.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hydro.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hydro.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 description is not detected on the main page of Hydro. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: