Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

share.aarp.org

AARP® Official Site - Join & Explore the Benefits

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

680 ms

Page Rendered

450 ms

share.aarp.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Share AARP content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about share.aarp.org

AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older to choose how they live as they age.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Share.aarp.org page load time and found that the first response time was 16 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 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

share.aarp.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

share.aarp.org

16 ms

www.aarp.org

32 ms

502407857.staticassets.min.css

38 ms

gpt.js

196 ms

above-the-fold-basic-withAds.rev202407161314.rev202407161314.min.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Share.aarp.org, 38% (10 requests) were made to Cdn.aarp.net and 35% (9 requests) were made to Aarp.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (404 ms) relates to the external source Aarp.widen.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Share.aarp.org main page is 2.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 700.6 kB

  • Original 777.6 kB
  • After minification 657.2 kB
  • After compression 77.1 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 120.4 kB, which is 15% 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 700.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 369.4 kB
  • After minification 353.3 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. Share AARP images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 918.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 683.9 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 918.9 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 557 B

  • Original 194.4 kB
  • After minification 194.4 kB
  • After compression 193.8 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. Share.aarp.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (29%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Share AARP. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

share.aarp.org accessibility score

93

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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

share.aarp.org 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

share.aarp.org SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Share.aarp.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 Share.aarp.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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