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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

vector.works

3D Design Software - Fully Integrated BIM | Vectorworks

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

Visit vector.works now to see the best up-to-date Vector content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vector.works

Design software that delivers a flexible and collaborative design process to architecture, landscaping and entertainment professionals. For Mac or Windows.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vector.works page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vector.works performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.vectorworks.net

249 ms

en-US

211 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

230 ms

otSDKStub.js

239 ms

player.js

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Vector.works, 20% (12 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (576 ms) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 970.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vector.works main page is 4.3 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 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 36.9 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 8.3 kB, which is 22% 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 28.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 568.8 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Obviously, Vector needs image optimization as it can save up to 568.8 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 324.5 kB

  • Original 511.5 kB
  • After minification 511.4 kB
  • After compression 186.9 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 324.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 48.6 kB

  • Original 104.2 kB
  • After minification 104.2 kB
  • After compression 55.5 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. Vector.works needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.6 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (54%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vector. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

vector.works accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

vector.works best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vector.works SEO score

79

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 Vector.works 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 Vector.works 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 Vector. 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: