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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

support.watchguard.com

WatchGuard Support | Download Software & Activate Products

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

308 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Support.watchguard.com page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 2.6 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

support.watchguard.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

support.watchguard.com

203 ms

overview

263 ms

overview

927 ms

google_tag.script.js

43 ms

css_zNL2Gw6nbrbb4zRcJWnQ-vBGoTUXvE9JwXYmoC0qDNc.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Support.watchguard.com, 70% (95 requests) were made to Ka-p.fontawesome.com and 19% (26 requests) were made to Watchguard.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (927 ms) relates to the external source Watchguard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 384.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Support.watchguard.com main page is 2.0 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. Javascripts take 977.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 372.6 kB

  • Original 510.0 kB
  • After minification 486.0 kB
  • After compression 137.4 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 372.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 882 B

  • Original 382.9 kB
  • After minification 382.1 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. Support Watch Guard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 977.9 kB
  • After minification 977.9 kB
  • After compression 970.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 141.8 kB
  • After minification 141.8 kB
  • After compression 138.4 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. Support.watchguard.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (44%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Support Watch Guard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

support.watchguard.com accessibility score

99

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

Best Practices

support.watchguard.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

support.watchguard.com SEO score

93

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

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 Support.watchguard.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 Support.watchguard.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 Support Watch Guard. 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: