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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

assuredguaranty.com

Municipal Bond | Financial Guaranty | Bond Insurance

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

551 ms

Page Rendered

508 ms

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About Website

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Assured Guaranty provides municipal bond insurance and financial guarantees for infrastructure and structured financings. We guarantee scheduled principal and interest payments when due on municipal, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Assuredguaranty.com page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

assuredguaranty.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

assuredguaranty.com

51 ms

assuredguaranty.com

199 ms

reset.css

57 ms

styles.css

75 ms

menu.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Assuredguaranty.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (199 ms) belongs to the original domain Assuredguaranty.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Assuredguaranty.com main page is 2.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 39.3 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 34.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Assured Guaranty images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 178.8 kB
  • After minification 171.8 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 120.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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. Assuredguaranty.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (49%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Assured Guaranty. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

assuredguaranty.com

assuredguaranty.com

51 ms

assuredguaranty.com

assuredguaranty.com

199 ms

reset.css

reset.css

57 ms

styles.css

styles.css

75 ms

menu.css

menu.css

59 ms

breaks.css

breaks.css

64 ms

jquery.ketchup.css

jquery.ketchup.css

65 ms

cookieConsent.css

cookieConsent.css

66 ms

shadowbox.css

shadowbox.css

75 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

117 ms

jquery.ketchup.js

jquery.ketchup.js

84 ms

jquery.ketchup.messages.js

jquery.ketchup.messages.js

86 ms

jquery.ketchup.validations.basic.js

jquery.ketchup.validations.basic.js

87 ms

shadowbox.js

shadowbox.js

94 ms

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

95 ms

master.js

master.js

105 ms

ratings.js

ratings.js

107 ms

presentations.js

presentations.js

110 ms

html5shiv.min.js

html5shiv.min.js

80 ms

flexibility.js

flexibility.js

83 ms

performance.now.polyfill.js

performance.now.polyfill.js

115 ms

bg-blue.jpg

bg-blue.jpg

40 ms

assured-logo.png

assured-logo.png

40 ms

about-text.png

about-text.png

40 ms

business-text.png

business-text.png

40 ms

investor-text.png

investor-text.png

40 ms

press-text.png

press-text.png

40 ms

careers-text.png

careers-text.png

59 ms

japanese.png

japanese.png

61 ms

home-image-alternate.jpg

home-image-alternate.jpg

129 ms

earnings-release-icon.png

earnings-release-icon.png

59 ms

webcast-icon.png

webcast-icon.png

57 ms

transcript-icon.png

transcript-icon.png

61 ms

Brightline_HP_graphic_5.jpg

Brightline_HP_graphic_5.jpg

185 ms

AR_2023_HP_graphic.png

AR_2023_HP_graphic.png

144 ms

guardrails-ad-video-graphic.png

guardrails-ad-video-graphic.png

102 ms

bright-shining-city-ad-HP.png

bright-shining-city-ad-HP.png

130 ms

Be-Calm-in-the-Storm.png

Be-Calm-in-the-Storm.png

152 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

79 ms

Accessibility Review

assuredguaranty.com accessibility score

91

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

assuredguaranty.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

assuredguaranty.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Assuredguaranty.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Assuredguaranty.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 Assured Guaranty. 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: