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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

assist.aol.com

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Page Load Speed

788 ms in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

444 ms

Page Rendered

334 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Assist.aol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 778 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

assist.aol.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

assist.aol.com

10 ms

assist.aol.com

15 ms

assist

201 ms

main.css

37 ms

button.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Assist.aol.com, 90% (62 requests) were made to S.aolcdn.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to S.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (201 ms) relates to the external source Aol.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.2 kB (22%)

Content Size

479.6 kB

After Optimization

372.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Assist.aol.com main page is 479.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 163.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 89.7 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 118.5 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 89.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 162.9 kB
  • After minification 156.2 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. Assist AOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 163.9 kB
  • After minification 163.9 kB
  • After compression 162.8 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

-30%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 32.8 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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. Assist.aol.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.7 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (77%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Assist AOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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assist.aol.com

10 ms

assist.aol.com

assist.aol.com

15 ms

assist

assist

201 ms

main.css

main.css

37 ms

button.css

button.css

40 ms

back-to-top.css

back-to-top.css

47 ms

section.css

section.css

50 ms

section-heading.css

section-heading.css

47 ms

section-footer.css

section-footer.css

50 ms

scroll-indicator.css

scroll-indicator.css

51 ms

tooltip.css

tooltip.css

53 ms

icon.css

icon.css

50 ms

anchor-target.css

anchor-target.css

52 ms

consent.js

consent.js

23 ms

cmpStub.min.js

cmpStub.min.js

30 ms

cmp.js

cmp.js

33 ms

user_agent_parser.js

user_agent_parser.js

51 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

62 ms

common.js

common.js

73 ms

plus-store.js

plus-store.js

73 ms

navbar.css

navbar.css

80 ms

hero-cover.css

hero-cover.css

82 ms

list-grid.css

list-grid.css

86 ms

hero-figure-text.css

hero-figure-text.css

88 ms

benefits.css

benefits.css

94 ms

show-hide.css

show-hide.css

91 ms

faq.css

faq.css

96 ms

footer.css

footer.css

90 ms

analytics3.js

analytics3.js

25 ms

adobe-target.js

adobe-target.js

91 ms

back-to-top.js

back-to-top.js

94 ms

benefits.js

benefits.js

174 ms

bmsm.js

bmsm.js

172 ms

comparison-table.js

comparison-table.js

170 ms

exint.js

exint.js

170 ms

faq.js

faq.js

171 ms

footer.js

footer.js

178 ms

glide.js

glide.js

179 ms

hero.js

hero.js

171 ms

hero-cover.js

hero-cover.js

185 ms

hero-split.js

hero-split.js

180 ms

hero-yangle.js

hero-yangle.js

184 ms

hero-figure-text.js

hero-figure-text.js

183 ms

list-grid.js

list-grid.js

157 ms

navbar.js

navbar.js

151 ms

parallax.js

parallax.js

145 ms

profile.js

profile.js

144 ms

scroll-indicator.js

scroll-indicator.js

147 ms

show-hide.js

show-hide.js

149 ms

tier-card.js

tier-card.js

145 ms

tier-collection.js

tier-collection.js

149 ms

tiles.js

tiles.js

146 ms

tooltip.js

tooltip.js

142 ms

price-table.js

price-table.js

139 ms

feature-list.js

feature-list.js

128 ms

comscore.js

comscore.js

126 ms

logo-aol-35h.svg

logo-aol-35h.svg

121 ms

assist-logo.svg

assist-logo.svg

122 ms

hero-assist-sm.jpg

hero-assist-sm.jpg

127 ms

stars-clean-fff.svg

stars-clean-fff.svg

119 ms

wrench-fff.svg

wrench-fff.svg

119 ms

printer-fff.svg

printer-fff.svg

119 ms

question-fff.svg

question-fff.svg

117 ms

assist-hero-fig.jpg

assist-hero-fig.jpg

119 ms

hero-cover-logo-sys-mech.svg

hero-cover-logo-sys-mech.svg

117 ms

hero-cover-bg.jpg

hero-cover-bg.jpg

47 ms

hero-cover-logo-myprivacy.svg

hero-cover-logo-myprivacy.svg

42 ms

hero-cover-bg-2.jpg

hero-cover-bg-2.jpg

44 ms

aol.svg

aol.svg

43 ms

Accessibility Review

assist.aol.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

assist.aol.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

assist.aol.com SEO score

86

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

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