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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

discover.aol.com

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

629 ms

Page Rendered

628 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discover.aol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discover.aol.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.187

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discover.aol.com

40 ms

discover.aol.com

22 ms

products

257 ms

main.css

48 ms

button.css

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Discover.aol.com, 87% (68 requests) were made to S.aolcdn.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Aol.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) relates to the external source Aol.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 177.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discover.aol.com main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

  • Original 153.1 kB
  • After minification 151.2 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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 115.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 60.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Discover AOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 164.9 kB
  • After minification 164.9 kB
  • After compression 162.7 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 544 B

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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. Discover.aol.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (70%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover 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

discover.aol.com

discover.aol.com

40 ms

discover.aol.com

discover.aol.com

22 ms

products

products

257 ms

main.css

main.css

48 ms

button.css

button.css

50 ms

back-to-top.css

back-to-top.css

57 ms

section.css

section.css

61 ms

section-heading.css

section-heading.css

60 ms

section-footer.css

section-footer.css

60 ms

scroll-indicator.css

scroll-indicator.css

61 ms

tooltip.css

tooltip.css

63 ms

icon.css

icon.css

63 ms

anchor-target.css

anchor-target.css

63 ms

consent.js

consent.js

38 ms

cmpStub.min.js

cmpStub.min.js

35 ms

cmp.js

cmp.js

40 ms

user_agent_parser.js

user_agent_parser.js

65 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

68 ms

common.js

common.js

66 ms

plus-store.js

plus-store.js

85 ms

navbar.css

navbar.css

97 ms

hero-cover.css

hero-cover.css

88 ms

list-grid.css

list-grid.css

94 ms

hero-figure-text.css

hero-figure-text.css

135 ms

benefits.css

benefits.css

99 ms

show-hide.css

show-hide.css

92 ms

footer.css

footer.css

96 ms

analytics3.js

analytics3.js

37 ms

adobe-target.js

adobe-target.js

96 ms

back-to-top.js

back-to-top.js

97 ms

benefits.js

benefits.js

98 ms

bmsm.js

bmsm.js

98 ms

comparison-table.js

comparison-table.js

102 ms

exint.js

exint.js

101 ms

faq.js

faq.js

99 ms

footer.js

footer.js

100 ms

glide.js

glide.js

99 ms

hero.js

hero.js

102 ms

hero-cover.js

hero-cover.js

102 ms

hero-split.js

hero-split.js

103 ms

hero-yangle.js

hero-yangle.js

104 ms

hero-figure-text.js

hero-figure-text.js

106 ms

list-grid.js

list-grid.js

104 ms

navbar.js

navbar.js

71 ms

parallax.js

parallax.js

67 ms

profile.js

profile.js

58 ms

scroll-indicator.js

scroll-indicator.js

58 ms

show-hide.js

show-hide.js

57 ms

tier-card.js

tier-card.js

57 ms

tier-collection.js

tier-collection.js

57 ms

tiles.js

tiles.js

56 ms

tooltip.js

tooltip.js

54 ms

price-table.js

price-table.js

52 ms

feature-list.js

feature-list.js

51 ms

logo_aol.svg

logo_aol.svg

32 ms

nordvpn-logo.svg

nordvpn-logo.svg

33 ms

aol-subs-hub-hero-small.jpg

aol-subs-hub-hero-small.jpg

29 ms

aol-subs-hub-hero-fig-1.jpg

aol-subs-hub-hero-fig-1.jpg

29 ms

system-mechanic.svg

system-mechanic.svg

27 ms

arrow-right-blue.svg

arrow-right-blue.svg

30 ms

aol-live-support.svg

aol-live-support.svg

26 ms

tech-fortress.svg

tech-fortress.svg

28 ms

AOLadFreeMail-logo-new.svg

AOLadFreeMail-logo-new.svg

29 ms

aol-subs-hero-fig-mail.jpg

aol-subs-hero-fig-mail.jpg

31 ms

aol-mail.svg

aol-mail.svg

28 ms

aol-app.svg

aol-app.svg

29 ms

id-protection-by-aol-black-logo.svg

id-protection-by-aol-black-logo.svg

30 ms

bundle-product-card-img-1.jpg

bundle-product-card-img-1.jpg

31 ms

data-secure-by-aol-logo.svg

data-secure-by-aol-logo.svg

29 ms

bundle-product-card-img-2.jpg

bundle-product-card-img-2.jpg

103 ms

complete-by-aol-logo.svg

complete-by-aol-logo.svg

101 ms

bundle-product-card-img-3.jpg

bundle-product-card-img-3.jpg

101 ms

Footer_Yahoo_Logo.svg

Footer_Yahoo_Logo.svg

98 ms

cs.js

cs.js

72 ms

index.html

index.html

12 ms

theme--aol-products-system-mechanic.css

theme--aol-products-system-mechanic.css

3 ms

%7B%7Bbg_img%7D%7D

%7B%7Bbg_img%7D%7D

82 ms

%7B%7Blogo%7D%7D

%7B%7Blogo%7D%7D

99 ms

Accessibility Review

discover.aol.com accessibility score

86

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.

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

Best Practices

discover.aol.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

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