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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

arq.group

Arq Group – Digital professional services company, with deep expertise in mobile, data and analytics and cloud (delivery & MSP).

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

444 ms

Resources Loaded

7.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arq.group page load time and found that the first response time was 444 ms and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arq.group performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,300 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arq.group

444 ms

1301 ms

css2

44 ms

icomoon~2024-09-19-08-59-17-000~cache.css

105 ms

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79 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Arq.group, 96% (53 requests) were made to Ncs.co and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.1 sec) relates to the external source Ncs.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arq.group main page is 2.7 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. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 157.7 kB

  • Original 177.4 kB
  • After minification 126.8 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 50.6 kB, which is 29% 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 157.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 337.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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, Arq needs image optimization as it can save up to 337.5 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 283.0 kB
  • After minification 283.0 kB
  • After compression 273.9 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 131.0 kB
  • After minification 131.0 kB
  • After compression 124.0 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. Arq.group has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (36%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

arq.group

arq.group

444 ms

1301 ms

css2

css2

44 ms

icomoon~2024-09-19-08-59-17-000~cache.css

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105 ms

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79 ms

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151 ms

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175 ms

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93 ms

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178 ms

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142 ms

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159 ms

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167 ms

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214 ms

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230 ms

ic-hamburger.svg

ic-hamburger.svg

952 ms

ncs_logo.png

ncs_logo.png

762 ms

ic-carousel-up.svg

ic-carousel-up.svg

710 ms

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861 ms

ic-arrow-right-primary.svg

ic-arrow-right-primary.svg

1006 ms

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784 ms

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1697 ms

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1546 ms

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1537 ms

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1626 ms

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1704 ms

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1740 ms

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2315 ms

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2382 ms

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2928 ms

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2391 ms

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3325 ms

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3156 ms

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3436 ms

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3402 ms

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3645 ms

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3756 ms

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3906 ms

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4045 ms

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4227 ms

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4955 ms

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4631 ms

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5088 ms

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4852 ms

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4966 ms

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4852 ms

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4829 ms

Accessibility Review

arq.group accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

arq.group 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

arq.group SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Arq.group 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 Arq.group 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

arq.group

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