Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

address-validator.net

Address Validator: Postal Address Validation & Address Verification Service

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

304 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

Welcome to address-validator.net homepage info - get ready to check Address Validator best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about address-validator.net

With our free postal address verification and international address validation service you can easily verify if any USPS or international postal address is valid and deliverable.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Address-validator.net page load time and found that the first response time was 304 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

address-validator.net performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

address-validator.net

304 ms

address-validator.net

361 ms

694 ms

style.css

175 ms

style-val.css

263 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Address-validator.net, 93% (51 requests) were made to Byteplant.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Assets.capterra.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (782 ms) relates to the external source Byteplant.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 438.5 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

681.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Address-validator.net main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 817.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 118.4 kB

  • Original 140.9 kB
  • After minification 124.3 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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 16.6 kB, which is 12% 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 118.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 315.9 kB

  • Original 817.3 kB
  • After minification 501.4 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. Obviously, Address Validator needs image optimization as it can save up to 315.9 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 261 B

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 133.5 kB
  • After compression 133.3 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 28.1 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. Address-validator.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (24%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Address Validator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

address-validator.net accessibility score

73

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Best Practices

address-validator.net 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

SEO Factors

address-validator.net SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Address-validator.net 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 Address-validator.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of Address Validator. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: