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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

alongside.com

Hiring and Recruiting Software - ATS | Alongside.com

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

853 ms

Page Rendered

316 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alongside.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alongside.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alongside.com

49 ms

alongside.com

94 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

44 ms

public_common.css

62 ms

layout.min.css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Alongside.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdn2.hubspot.net and 3% (1 request) were made to Assets.capterra.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (266 ms) relates to the external source Cdn2.hubspot.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alongside.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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 53.2 kB
  • After minification 44.7 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.5 kB, which is 16% 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 45.8 kB or 86% 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.

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 6 (24%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 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 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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alongside.com

49 ms

alongside.com

alongside.com

94 ms

jquery-1.11.2.js

jquery-1.11.2.js

44 ms

public_common.css

public_common.css

62 ms

layout.min.css

layout.min.css

73 ms

alongside-base.min.css

alongside-base.min.css

88 ms

Alongside-default_upgraded.css

Alongside-default_upgraded.css

68 ms

jquerylibs.js

jquerylibs.js

67 ms

alongside.js

alongside.js

71 ms

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617760850c9fe4fbf88aae00fc15980f.png

155 ms

alongside-logo.png

alongside-logo.png

29 ms

squirrel.png

squirrel.png

235 ms

tara.png

tara.png

43 ms

rabbit.png

rabbit.png

201 ms

mouse.png

mouse.png

239 ms

profile-jean-philippe-green.png

profile-jean-philippe-green.png

48 ms

thomas.png

thomas.png

155 ms

cat.png

cat.png

218 ms

dog%20(1).png

dog%20(1).png

237 ms

mike_shanks.png

mike_shanks.png

160 ms

profile-job-seeker.png

profile-job-seeker.png

180 ms

flamingo-sidekick.png

flamingo-sidekick.png

258 ms

alongside-icon_whit.png

alongside-icon_whit.png

219 ms

fabe89ae-9cca-4227-bf57-34729fc4a064.png

fabe89ae-9cca-4227-bf57-34729fc4a064.png

237 ms

balloons-post-footer.png

balloons-post-footer.png

239 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

128 ms

ascb_logo_only.svg

ascb_logo_only.svg

175 ms

322A88_0_0.woff

322A88_0_0.woff

266 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

44 ms

322A88_0_0.ttf

322A88_0_0.ttf

225 ms

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

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

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

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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: