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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

expressit.com

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Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

714 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expressit.com page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 2.7 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

expressit.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.937

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expressit.com

72 ms

www.broderbund.com

115 ms

4dd6d7d4dd62261fd84229edae8863fa.min.css

34 ms

styles-l.min.css

25 ms

require.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 218 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Expressit.com, 83% (180 requests) were made to Broderbund.com and 8% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (520 ms) relates to the external source Broderbund.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 555.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Expressit.com main page is 3.7 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 302.5 kB

  • Original 328.8 kB
  • After minification 236.1 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 92.7 kB, which is 28% 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 302.5 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Expressit images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 111.3 kB

  • Original 583.5 kB
  • After minification 579.5 kB
  • After compression 472.2 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 111.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 95.6 kB

  • Original 153.9 kB
  • After minification 62.7 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. Expressit.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 132 (69%)

Requests Now

191

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 191 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expressit. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 121 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

expressit.com accessibility score

76

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

expressit.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

expressit.com SEO score

85

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 Expressit.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 Expressit.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 Expressit. 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: