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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

aarp.org

AARP® Official Site - Join & Explore the Benefits

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

718 ms

About Website

Welcome to aarp.org homepage info - get ready to check AARP best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about 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 Aarp.org page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aarp.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aarp.org

112 ms

www.aarp.org

45 ms

89573325.staticassets.min.css

26 ms

gpt.js

310 ms

above-the-fold-basic-withAds.rev202404231915.rev202404231915.min.js

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Aarp.org, 41% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.aarp.net and 19% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (384 ms) relates to the external source Assets.adobedtm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aarp.org main page is 3.8 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. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 784.5 kB

  • Original 870.7 kB
  • After minification 739.6 kB
  • After compression 86.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 131.1 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 784.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 61.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. 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 691.2 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 918.9 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 556 B

  • Original 208.3 kB
  • After minification 208.3 kB
  • After compression 207.7 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. 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

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

aarp.org accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

aarp.org SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 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 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 AARP. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: