Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

804 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yahoo.messenger.com page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yahoo.messenger.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yahoo.messenger.com

254 ms

9tDmASdiiWn.css

185 ms

YcYeDNzpQtI.css

228 ms

FAHeNGXgPup.js

308 ms

11057099_383365451847896_1818480781_n.png

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Yahoo.messenger.com, 56% (15 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net and 37% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (994 ms) relates to the external source Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 519.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Yahoo.messenger.com main page is 4.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 68.2 kB

  • Original 89.7 kB
  • After minification 89.2 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 68.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 451.6 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Obviously, Yahoo Messenger needs image optimization as it can save up to 451.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (19%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yahoo Messenger. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

yahoo.messenger.com accessibility score

78

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

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

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

yahoo.messenger.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

yahoo.messenger.com SEO score

92

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 Yahoo.messenger.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 Yahoo.messenger.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

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