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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fx-rate.net page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fx-rate.net performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fx-rate.net

50 ms

fx-rate.net

433 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

interface3.js

66 ms

feedback2.js

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Fx-rate.net, 1% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com and 1% (1 request) were made to C.statcounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (614 ms) belongs to the original domain Fx-rate.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.5 kB (45%)

Content Size

223.8 kB

After Optimization

122.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fx-rate.net main page is 223.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 114.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 92.9 kB

  • Original 114.8 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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. 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 92.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 41.2 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. Obviously, Fx Rate needs image optimization as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 100 B

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 53.0 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 3 B

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Fx-rate.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (78%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fx Rate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fx-rate.net accessibility score

73

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

fx-rate.net 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

fx-rate.net SEO score

87

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Fx-rate.net 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 Fx-rate.net 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 Fx Rate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: