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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

freeforexapi.com

Free Forex API | Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion

Page Load Speed

355 ms in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

244 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freeforexapi.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 331 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freeforexapi.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freeforexapi.com

24 ms

freeforexapi.com

54 ms

js

118 ms

bootstrap.min.css

44 ms

site.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Freeforexapi.com, 38% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 15% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (118 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

14.7 kB

After Optimization

8.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freeforexapi.com main page is 14.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 8.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 1.3 kB, which is 15% 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 5.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 281 B

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Free Forex API images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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

-17%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 357 B
  • After minification 357 B
  • After compression 297 B

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. Freeforexapi.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (55%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Forex API. 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

freeforexapi.com accessibility score

84

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

freeforexapi.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freeforexapi.com SEO score

100

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Freeforexapi.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Freeforexapi.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 Free Forex API. 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: