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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

windows.live.com

Microsoft Outlook Personal Email and Calendar | Microsoft 365

Page Load Speed

611 ms in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

427 ms

Page Rendered

79 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Windows.live.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 506 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

windows.live.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

105 ms

email-and-calendar-software-microsoft-outlook

47 ms

mwf-west-european-default.min.css

117 ms

51-40faf7

26 ms

override.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Windows.live.com, 24% (4 requests) were made to Microsoft.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Assets.onestore.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (117 ms) relates to the external source Assets.onestore.ms.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 601.6 kB (84%)

Content Size

716.4 kB

After Optimization

114.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Windows.live.com main page is 716.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 563.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 96.6 kB

  • Original 106.6 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 40.2 kB, which is 38% 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 96.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 493 B

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Obviously, Windows Live needs image optimization as it can save up to 493 B or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 33.3 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 8.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 495.9 kB

  • Original 563.9 kB
  • After minification 563.5 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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. Windows.live.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 495.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Windows Live. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

windows.live.com accessibility score

73

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

High

[role] values are not valid

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

windows.live.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

windows.live.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Windows.live.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 Windows.live.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 Windows Live. 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: