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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

actuaries.digital

Actuaries Institute Magazine - Actuaries Digital

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

672 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

622 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Actuaries content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about actuaries.digital

At Actuaries Digital, our purpose is to provide a platform for actuaries to showcase their diverse talent and thought leadership to the profession and to those in the industries served by actuaries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Actuaries.digital page load time and found that the first response time was 672 ms and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

actuaries.digital performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.317

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

actuaries.digital

672 ms

www.actuaries.digital

1337 ms

style.min.css

220 ms

css2

36 ms

fa-svg-with-js.css

439 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Actuaries.digital, 14% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Actuaries.digital.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 237.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Actuaries.digital main page is 2.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 129.8 kB

  • Original 157.4 kB
  • After minification 134.0 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 23.4 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 129.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Actuaries images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 69.1 kB

  • Original 710.1 kB
  • After minification 710.1 kB
  • After compression 641.0 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 80.6 kB
  • After minification 80.6 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. Actuaries.digital needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (60%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Actuaries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

actuaries.digital accessibility score

83

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

actuaries.digital best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

actuaries.digital SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Actuaries.digital can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Actuaries.digital 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 Actuaries. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: