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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

alternativesins.com

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Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alternativesins.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 2.9 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

alternativesins.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.369

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alternativesins.com

149 ms

default.aspx

827 ms

default.aspx

275 ms

www.alternativesins.com

183 ms

style.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Alternativesins.com, 15% (7 requests) were made to Image.providesupport.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Iwb.blob.core.windows.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (827 ms) belongs to the original domain Alternativesins.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 87.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

714.3 kB

After Optimization

626.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alternativesins.com main page is 714.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 417.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 50.1 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. 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 40.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 245.5 kB
  • After minification 241.2 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. Alternatives Ins images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 43.0 kB

  • Original 417.7 kB
  • After minification 417.7 kB
  • After compression 374.8 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 65 B

  • Original 904 B
  • After minification 904 B
  • After compression 839 B

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. Alternativesins.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (33%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alternatives Ins. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alternativesins.com

alternativesins.com

149 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

827 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

275 ms

www.alternativesins.com

www.alternativesins.com

183 ms

style.css

style.css

90 ms

ada_shim.js

ada_shim.js

177 ms

api.js

api.js

99 ms

alert.js

alert.js

169 ms

js

js

84 ms

ada_panel.js

ada_panel.js

258 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

261 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

367 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

569 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

367 ms

safe-standard.js

safe-standard.js

168 ms

safe-standard.js

safe-standard.js

169 ms

safe-standard.js

safe-standard.js

112 ms

safe-standard.js

safe-standard.js

166 ms

safe-standard.js

safe-standard.js

114 ms

safe-standard.js

safe-standard.js

255 ms

ga.js

ga.js

89 ms

js

js

92 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

42 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

115 ms

beacon

beacon

64 ms

pageBackImage.jpg

pageBackImage.jpg

106 ms

headerIndex3.jpg

headerIndex3.jpg

151 ms

headernav.jpg

headernav.jpg

236 ms

auto_policy.jpg

auto_policy.jpg

169 ms

home.jpg

home.jpg

190 ms

csr.jpg

csr.jpg

189 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

192 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

74 ms

collect

collect

44 ms

collect

collect

92 ms

pagebackimage.jpg

pagebackimage.jpg

146 ms

headerleft.jpg

headerleft.jpg

159 ms

headerindex3.jpg

headerindex3.jpg

316 ms

menuItemBackImage.jpg

menuItemBackImage.jpg

69 ms

menuHeaderHoverBackImage.jpg

menuHeaderHoverBackImage.jpg

75 ms

menuHeaderBackImage.jpg

menuHeaderBackImage.jpg

75 ms

website_data.ashx

website_data.ashx

86 ms

safe-standard.js

safe-standard.js

55 ms

menuitembackimage.jpg

menuitembackimage.jpg

75 ms

menuheaderhoverbackimage.jpg

menuheaderhoverbackimage.jpg

83 ms

menuheaderbackimage.jpg

menuheaderbackimage.jpg

82 ms

Accessibility Review

alternativesins.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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

alternativesins.com best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

alternativesins.com SEO score

93

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 Alternativesins.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 Alternativesins.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 description is not detected on the main page of Alternatives Ins. 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: