Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

alongside.com

Hiring and Recruiting Software - ATS | Alongside.com

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

722 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alongside.com page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alongside.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,020 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alongside.com

184 ms

alongside.com

140 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

60 ms

public_common.css

208 ms

layout.min.css

219 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Alongside.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (645 ms) belongs to the original domain Alongside.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 361.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Alongside.com main page is 2.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 48.6 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 8.5 kB, which is 15% 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 48.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 308.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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, Alongside needs image optimization as it can save up to 308.0 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 798 B

  • Original 35.8 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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. Alongside.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (40%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alongside. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alongside.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alongside.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alongside.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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