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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Applicantlab.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

applicantlab.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

applicantlab.com

49 ms

www.applicantlab.com

66 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

24 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

49 ms

slick.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (125 requests) were addressed to the original Applicantlab.com, 3% (4 requests) were made to Stonly.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) belongs to the original domain Applicantlab.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 927.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Applicantlab.com main page is 4.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 211.7 kB

  • Original 253.2 kB
  • After minification 253.1 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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. 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 211.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 569.1 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Obviously, Applicant Lab needs image optimization as it can save up to 569.1 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 99.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-15%

Potential reduce by 47.5 kB

  • Original 318.9 kB
  • After minification 318.9 kB
  • After compression 271.5 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. Applicantlab.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 98 (72%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Applicant Lab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 68 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

applicantlab.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

applicantlab.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

applicantlab.com SEO score

93

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

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 Applicantlab.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 Applicantlab.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 Applicant Lab. 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: