Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

upcounsel.com

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

661 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Upcounsel.com page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

upcounsel.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

upcounsel.com

181 ms

www.upcounsel.com

604 ms

uc_client_logger-ba049582f9f967a9a7cd14c1d9555635ead058250664bcd9d7d7517b20096f1a.js

108 ms

public_v9-e5871f66fc796f80f03e4fc6d56bfc7e43edf9fe9a7491ce3e9ede21be179884.css

105 ms

jquery.min.js

104 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Upcounsel.com, 32% (12 requests) were made to Rcdn.upcounsel.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to S.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (604 ms) belongs to the original domain Upcounsel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Upcounsel.com main page is 2.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 66.6 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 54.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 125.7 kB

  • Original 929.9 kB
  • After minification 804.2 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. Obviously, Upcounsel needs image optimization as it can save up to 125.7 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 683.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 343.5 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 683.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 365.3 kB

  • Original 430.3 kB
  • After minification 428.4 kB
  • After compression 64.9 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. Upcounsel.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 365.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Upcounsel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

upcounsel.com accessibility score

61

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

upcounsel.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

upcounsel.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Upcounsel.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 Upcounsel.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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