Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

aliexpressa.com

AliExpress - Online Shopping for Popular Electronics, Fashion, Home & Garden, Toys & Sports, Automobiles and More.

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

62 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

106 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aliexpressa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 62 ms and then it took 3.7 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

aliexpressa.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,250 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.13

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

62 ms

best.aliexpress.com

625 ms

index.css

111 ms

ae-header.css

61 ms

ae-header.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Aliexpressa.com, 27% (18 requests) were made to Ae01.alicdn.com and 26% (17 requests) were made to Assets.alicdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Fourier.taobao.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 640.5 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

837.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Aliexpressa.com main page is 1.5 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 211.1 kB

  • Original 249.4 kB
  • After minification 241.0 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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 211.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 321.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 736.2 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 321.6 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 107.8 kB

  • Original 170.8 kB
  • After minification 170.7 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Aliexpressa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 107.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (46%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ali Express A. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aliexpressa.com accessibility score

64

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.

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 valid value for its [lang] attribute.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

aliexpressa.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

aliexpressa.com SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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 doesn't use 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 Aliexpressa.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 Aliexpressa.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ali Express A. 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: