Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

blogs.cfainstitute.org

CFA Institute Daily Browse | Research. Reviews. Ideas. Built for investment professionals.

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

785 ms

Page Rendered

893 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.cfainstitute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 1.7 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

blogs.cfainstitute.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.cfainstitute.org

76 ms

blogs.cfainstitute.org

55 ms

style.css

123 ms

jetpack.css

149 ms

jquery.js

154 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.cfainstitute.org, 58% (19 requests) were made to Cfa-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) relates to the external source Assets.adobedtm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 353.2 kB (48%)

Content Size

734.1 kB

After Optimization

380.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.cfainstitute.org main page is 734.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 334.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 54.9 kB

  • Original 66.5 kB
  • After minification 60.4 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 54.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 66.0 kB

  • Original 334.4 kB
  • After minification 268.4 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, Blogs CFA Institute needs image optimization as it can save up to 66.0 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 168.0 kB

  • Original 253.8 kB
  • After minification 253.7 kB
  • After compression 85.8 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 168.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 64.3 kB

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 79.3 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Blogs.cfainstitute.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (35%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs CFA Institute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blogs.cfainstitute.org accessibility score

84

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blogs.cfainstitute.org 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

SEO Factors

blogs.cfainstitute.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.cfainstitute.org 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 Blogs.cfainstitute.org 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 Blogs CFA Institute. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: