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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

blogs.ci.com

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

987 ms

Page Rendered

236 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.ci.com page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.ci.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,800 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.ci.com

79 ms

blogs

136 ms

articles.html

93 ms

custom.css

105 ms

clientlib-global.lc-b992a0ba81ee182a3d848430d429a61f-lc.min.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.ci.com, 50% (24 requests) were made to Cifinancial.com and 19% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (259 ms) relates to the external source Ciinvestments.demdex.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 492.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

722.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.ci.com main page is 1.2 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 542.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 134.4 kB

  • Original 154.2 kB
  • After minification 138.5 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 134.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 542.3 kB
  • After minification 535.0 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. Blogs CI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 350.6 kB

  • Original 514.9 kB
  • After minification 510.5 kB
  • After compression 164.4 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 350.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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.ci.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (70%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs CI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

blogs.ci.com accessibility score

93

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

blogs.ci.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

SEO Factors

blogs.ci.com SEO score

93

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 Blogs.ci.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.ci.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 data is detected on the main page of Blogs CI. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: