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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ahrefs.com

Ahrefs—Marketing Intelligence Tools Powered by Big Data.

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

442 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

582 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ahrefs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 442 ms and then it took 2.5 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

ahrefs.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,840 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ahrefs.com

442 ms

css

77 ms

home.css

90 ms

jquery.min.js

87 ms

client:platform.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ahrefs.com, 11% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Assets.elev.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (853 ms) belongs to the original domain Ahrefs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 336.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ahrefs.com main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 837.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 58.2 kB
  • After minification 52.7 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 41.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 837.9 kB
  • After minification 836.3 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. Ahrefs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 150.1 kB

  • Original 282.4 kB
  • After minification 280.7 kB
  • After compression 132.4 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 150.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 142.8 kB

  • Original 172.0 kB
  • After minification 161.2 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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. Ahrefs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (56%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ahrefs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ahrefs.com

ahrefs.com

442 ms

css

css

77 ms

home.css

home.css

90 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

87 ms

client:platform.js

client:platform.js

136 ms

home.js

home.js

174 ms

j.php

j.php

51 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

185 ms

analytics.min.js

analytics.min.js

185 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

183 ms

logo_2x.png

logo_2x.png

171 ms

screen.png

screen.png

353 ms

homemainscreen.jpg

homemainscreen.jpg

425 ms

slidecover.png

slidecover.png

409 ms

homescreen_se.jpg

homescreen_se.jpg

630 ms

ahrefstestimonial_neil.jpg

ahrefstestimonial_neil.jpg

409 ms

ahrefstestimonial_brian.jpg

ahrefstestimonial_brian.jpg

407 ms

ahrefstestimonial_aaron.jpg

ahrefstestimonial_aaron.jpg

459 ms

ahrefstestimonial_rhea.jpg

ahrefstestimonial_rhea.jpg

538 ms

ahrefstestimonial_jon.jpg

ahrefstestimonial_jon.jpg

538 ms

icon_youtube_2x.png

icon_youtube_2x.png

536 ms

icon-flag-en.gif

icon-flag-en.gif

537 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

117 ms

v.gif

v.gif

10 ms

homescreen_pe.jpg

homescreen_pe.jpg

695 ms

homescreen_ce.jpg

homescreen_ce.jpg

853 ms

homescreen_tk.jpg

homescreen_tk.jpg

684 ms

homescreen_cr.jpg

homescreen_cr.jpg

763 ms

homescreen_aa.jpg

homescreen_aa.jpg

504 ms

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166 ms

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224 ms

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280 ms

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279 ms

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280 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

169 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

93 ms

p

p

604 ms

228 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

34 ms

mixpanel-2-latest.min.js

mixpanel-2-latest.min.js

164 ms

w.js

w.js

237 ms

v3.js

v3.js

163 ms

bce127d944f5644103b006e9aec412cc38a30c96.2.js

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204 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

146 ms

collect

collect

81 ms

169 ms

api.js

api.js

91 ms

core:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js

core:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js

160 ms

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166 ms

102 ms

103 ms

widget.js

widget.js

101 ms

e

e

145 ms

e

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142 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

157 ms

inspectlet.js

inspectlet.js

82 ms

app.json

app.json

74 ms

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89 ms

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140 ms

css

css

18 ms

app-v-417.min.css

app-v-417.min.css

14 ms

page_settings

page_settings

43 ms

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5 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

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11 ms

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12 ms

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12 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

dic5omcp

dic5omcp

47 ms

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intercom.c5a1eeb5.js

42 ms

Accessibility Review

ahrefs.com accessibility score

83

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

ahrefs.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

SEO Factors

ahrefs.com SEO score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ahrefs.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 Ahrefs.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

ahrefs.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ahrefs. 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: