Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

autodesk.org

Autodesk Foundation

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

701 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Autodesk.org page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

autodesk.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,620 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

autodesk.org

40 ms

www.autodesk.org

245 ms

dhig-global.css

41 ms

main.js

71 ms

main.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Autodesk.org, 39% (11 requests) were made to Swc.autodesk.com and 25% (7 requests) were made to Damassets.autodesk.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (477 ms) relates to the external source Damassets.autodesk.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (62%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

948.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Autodesk.org 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 93.8 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 96.6 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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 13.4 kB, which is 12% 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 93.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 330.1 kB
  • After minification 330.1 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. Autodesk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 602.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 488.2 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 602.4 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 849.1 kB

  • Original 963.1 kB
  • After minification 956.6 kB
  • After compression 114.0 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. Autodesk.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 849.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (55%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Autodesk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

autodesk.org accessibility score

85

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

autodesk.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

autodesk.org SEO score

71

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

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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 Autodesk.org 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 Autodesk.org 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

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