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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

consumerreports.org

Product Reviews and Ratings, Buying Advice and Consumer Advocacy - Consumer Reports

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

874 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Consumerreports.org page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

consumerreports.org performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

consumerreports.org

179 ms

www.consumerreports.org

347 ms

desktop.css

68 ms

index.js

79 ms

entry.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Consumerreports.org, 66% (48 requests) were made to Article.images.consumerreports.org and 15% (11 requests) were made to Cdn.cr.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (815 ms) relates to the external source Article.images.consumerreports.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.1 kB (39%)

Content Size

963.7 kB

After Optimization

589.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Consumerreports.org main page is 963.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 464.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 373.2 kB

  • Original 464.3 kB
  • After minification 389.2 kB
  • After compression 91.2 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 75.1 kB, which is 16% 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 373.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 301.8 kB
  • After minification 301.6 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. Consumer Reports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 666 B

  • Original 186.2 kB
  • After minification 186.2 kB
  • After compression 185.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 54 B

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Consumerreports.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (16%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

57

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Consumer Reports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

consumerreports.org 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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

consumerreports.org 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

consumerreports.org 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

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 Consumerreports.org 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 Consumerreports.org 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 Consumer Reports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: