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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

blogs.avg.com

AVG Signal Blog | Online Security, Privacy & Performance

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

592 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.avg.com page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.avg.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.avg.com

202 ms

signal

223 ms

gtm.js

104 ms

onetrust-avg-floating-center.css

117 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.avg.com, 71% (54 requests) were made to Signal.avg.com and 12% (9 requests) were made to Static2.avg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (545 ms) relates to the external source Signal.avg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 712.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.avg.com main page is 3.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 622.9 kB

  • Original 748.9 kB
  • After minification 517.1 kB
  • After compression 126.0 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 231.8 kB, which is 31% 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 622.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 245 B

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Blog S AVG images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 89.6 kB

  • Original 145.0 kB
  • After minification 145.0 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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 89.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. Blogs.avg.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (17%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog S AVG. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blogs.avg.com accessibility score

87

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.

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

blogs.avg.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blogs.avg.com SEO score

86

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

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 Blogs.avg.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 Blogs.avg.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 Blog S AVG. 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: