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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

brother.com

Brother Office Electronics for Home and Home Office

Page Load Speed

13.4 sec in total

First Response

799 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

5.5 sec

brother.com screenshot

About Website

Visit brother.com now to see the best up-to-date Brother content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about brother.com

From fun crafts to home organization to serious home office productivity, Brother has what you need for your home or home office.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brother.com page load time and found that the first response time was 799 ms and then it took 12.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brother.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,890 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.brother.com

799 ms

www.brother-usa.com

1220 ms

MainUSA.css

49 ms

jquery.min.js

13 ms

jquery.peekabar.min.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Brother.com, 80% (35 requests) were made to Brother-usa.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Brother-usa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 508.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brother.com main page is 3.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 122.8 kB

  • Original 143.0 kB
  • After minification 99.5 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 43.5 kB, which is 30% 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 122.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Brother images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 186.3 kB

  • Original 313.6 kB
  • After minification 265.4 kB
  • After compression 127.4 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 186.3 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 70.8 kB

  • Original 81.4 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Brother.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 70.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (10%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brother. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.brother.com

www.brother.com

799 ms

www.brother-usa.com

www.brother-usa.com

1220 ms

MainUSA.css

MainUSA.css

49 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

13 ms

jquery.peekabar.min.css

jquery.peekabar.min.css

27 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

896 ms

jquery.cycle.js

jquery.cycle.js

968 ms

head_brotherlogo.gif

head_brotherlogo.gif

358 ms

BRIPD-11956_960x348_March%202017.jpg

BRIPD-11956_960x348_March%202017.jpg

296 ms

Refresh%20Banner%20960x348_Fin.png

Refresh%20Banner%20960x348_Fin.png

296 ms

meet-dnc-960x318.jpg

meet-dnc-960x318.jpg

524 ms

scroller-left.jpg

scroller-left.jpg

342 ms

business-scroller.jpg

business-scroller.jpg

341 ms

scroller-labeling.jpg

scroller-labeling.jpg

348 ms

sewing-scroller.jpg

sewing-scroller.jpg

348 ms

industrial_garment.jpg

industrial_garment.jpg

344 ms

online.jpg

online.jpg

846 ms

industrial_sewing.jpg

industrial_sewing.jpg

846 ms

scroller_mobile.jpg

scroller_mobile.jpg

837 ms

scroller-ScanNCut.jpg

scroller-ScanNCut.jpg

837 ms

scroller-typewriters.jpg

scroller-typewriters.jpg

788 ms

scroller-business.jpg

scroller-business.jpg

1259 ms

scroller-machine_tools.jpg

scroller-machine_tools.jpg

1439 ms

scroller-gearmotors.jpg

scroller-gearmotors.jpg

1439 ms

scroller-right.jpg

scroller-right.jpg

1439 ms

brother-earth-logo.gif

brother-earth-logo.gif

1438 ms

MFC-J985DW%20%20featured%20product.png

MFC-J985DW%20%20featured%20product.png

1663 ms

AiRScouterFeatured.jpg

AiRScouterFeatured.jpg

1440 ms

supplies-grouping.png

supplies-grouping.png

1440 ms

cc-center-logo.gif

cc-center-logo.gif

1440 ms

triangle.jpg

triangle.jpg

1439 ms

socialmedia.jpg

socialmedia.jpg

1355 ms

email_signup_banner.jpg

email_signup_banner.jpg

1579 ms

sa_lightbox.js

sa_lightbox.js

308 ms

sa_lightbox.css

sa_lightbox.css

749 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

1033 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

1580 ms

lightbox_close.gif

lightbox_close.gif

1532 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

1220 ms

input_off.gif

input_off.gif

1178 ms

navbarbackground.jpg

navbarbackground.jpg

1174 ms

productcarouselbackground.png

productcarouselbackground.png

1175 ms

bottom-bar-background--box.jpg

bottom-bar-background--box.jpg

1111 ms

utag.js

utag.js

730 ms

Accessibility Review

brother.com accessibility score

86

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

brother.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

brother.com SEO score

83

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Brother.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 Brother.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

brother.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Brother. 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: