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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

homepage.aol.com

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

28 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homepage.aol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 28 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homepage.aol.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homepage.aol.com

28 ms

homepage.aol.com

460 ms

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97 ms

custom.5fcdebca.css

120 ms

homepage_v2.450ca5fa.css

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Homepage.aol.com, 63% (78 requests) were made to S.aolcdn.com and 33% (41 requests) were made to S.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) belongs to the original domain Homepage.aol.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 642.6 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

615.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homepage.aol.com main page is 1.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 742.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 611.5 kB

  • Original 742.8 kB
  • After minification 742.5 kB
  • After compression 131.3 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. 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 611.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 185.1 kB
  • After minification 181.7 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. Homepage AOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 329.6 kB
  • After minification 329.6 kB
  • After compression 302.4 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

-54%

Potential reduce by 376 B

  • Original 701 B
  • After minification 544 B
  • After compression 325 B

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. Homepage.aol.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 376 B or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (52%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homepage 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 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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28 ms

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Accessibility Review

homepage.aol.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[role] values are not valid

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

Best Practices

homepage.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

homepage.aol.com SEO score

85

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Homepage.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 Homepage.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

homepage.aol.com

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