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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

centurylink.us

Residential Services: Home Internet, TV, & Phone | CenturyLink

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

875 ms

Page Rendered

461 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Centurylink.us page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms and then it took 1.3 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

centurylink.us performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.13

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

centurylink.com

133 ms

www.centurylink.com

34 ms

www.centurylink.com

47 ms

adrum-22.6.0.3859.js

40 ms

core.min.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Centurylink.us, 5% (5 requests) were made to Centurylinkresidential.mpeasylink.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (361 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Centurylink.us main page is 2.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 147.8 kB

  • Original 172.2 kB
  • After minification 129.8 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 42.5 kB, which is 25% 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 147.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Century Link images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 237.8 kB
  • After minification 237.2 kB
  • After compression 227.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 91.1 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 75.2 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. Centurylink.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (53%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Century Link. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

centurylink.com

centurylink.com

133 ms

www.centurylink.com

www.centurylink.com

34 ms

www.centurylink.com

www.centurylink.com

47 ms

adrum-22.6.0.3859.js

adrum-22.6.0.3859.js

40 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

48 ms

crypto-js.min.js

crypto-js.min.js

64 ms

aes.min.js

aes.min.js

80 ms

reset.css

reset.css

8 ms

jquery-3.7.0.js

jquery-3.7.0.js

36 ms

require2.js

require2.js

46 ms

mp_linkcode.js

mp_linkcode.js

53 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

58 ms

template_a.css

template_a.css

54 ms

global-responsive.css

global-responsive.css

53 ms

qwest.jquery-ui-autocomplete-0.0.1.css

qwest.jquery-ui-autocomplete-0.0.1.css

53 ms

jqModal.css

jqModal.css

51 ms

modals.css

modals.css

56 ms

zipmodal.css

zipmodal.css

55 ms

embeddedGeoContentController-responsive.js

embeddedGeoContentController-responsive.js

54 ms

home-responsive.css

home-responsive.css

58 ms

hero-address-form.css

hero-address-form.css

55 ms

home-res-banner.css

home-res-banner.css

58 ms

res_nav_transparent.css

res_nav_transparent.css

107 ms

global-navbar.css

global-navbar.css

60 ms

global-navbar.js

global-navbar.js

59 ms

uni_res_nav.js

uni_res_nav.js

60 ms

resHomeBanner-bannerScripts.js

resHomeBanner-bannerScripts.js

60 ms

hero-address-form-supplement.js

hero-address-form-supplement.js

72 ms

ctap-address-form.js

ctap-address-form.js

73 ms

mpel.js

mpel.js

38 ms

global-footer.css

global-footer.css

72 ms

global-footer.js

global-footer.js

102 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

361 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.11.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.11.custom.css

14 ms

qwest.jquery-ui-0.0.1.css

qwest.jquery-ui-0.0.1.css

16 ms

qwest_logo.png

qwest_logo.png

64 ms

ctl_logo.png

ctl_logo.png

64 ms

loading_nc_large.gif

loading_nc_large.gif

22 ms

centurylink-logo.svg

centurylink-logo.svg

19 ms

centurylink-logo-tablet.svg

centurylink-logo-tablet.svg

14 ms

search_icon.svg

search_icon.svg

12 ms

zipcode-icon-tablet.svg

zipcode-icon-tablet.svg

17 ms

left-arrow.svg

left-arrow.svg

18 ms

left_arrow_ro_icon.svg

left_arrow_ro_icon.svg

30 ms

right-arrow.svg

right-arrow.svg

30 ms

right_arrow_ro_icon.svg

right_arrow_ro_icon.svg

28 ms

redesignHero.png

redesignHero.png

49 ms

res_home_mobile.png

res_home_mobile.png

36 ms

100Mbps.svg

100Mbps.svg

31 ms

940Mbps.svg

940Mbps.svg

34 ms

sbg-work-hard-mobile.jpg

sbg-work-hard-mobile.jpg

39 ms

Accessories-Mobile.png

Accessories-Mobile.png

45 ms

CTL-500-Mbps.svg

CTL-500-Mbps.svg

36 ms

RES_Banners_wfh_mob.jpg

RES_Banners_wfh_mob.jpg

44 ms

LocationIcon_av.svg

LocationIcon_av.svg

39 ms

loading_small.gif

loading_small.gif

43 ms

smartPhone.png

smartPhone.png

43 ms

womanLaptop.png

womanLaptop.png

50 ms

manPhone.png

manPhone.png

52 ms

devices.png

devices.png

48 ms

monitor.png

monitor.png

50 ms

TV_popcorn_mobile.png

TV_popcorn_mobile.png

48 ms

phone_guy_mobile.png

phone_guy_mobile.png

50 ms

accessories_mobile.png

accessories_mobile.png

56 ms

fiber_internet_mobile.png

fiber_internet_mobile.png

51 ms

ACP.png

ACP.png

69 ms

ACPmobile.png

ACPmobile.png

55 ms

30to0.png

30to0.png

51 ms

speedMeter.svg

speedMeter.svg

56 ms

247clock.svg

247clock.svg

58 ms

MaisonNeue-Book.otf

MaisonNeue-Book.otf

64 ms

wifiSymbol.svg

wifiSymbol.svg

52 ms

paperMoney.svg

paperMoney.svg

55 ms

yogaLady.png

yogaLady.png

97 ms

xboxController.png

xboxController.png

56 ms

videoTablet.png

videoTablet.png

52 ms

rokuStick.png

rokuStick.png

52 ms

fiveStar-518x200.png

fiveStar-518x200.png

54 ms

mpel_storage.html

mpel_storage.html

21 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

47 ms

fiveStar-312x120.png

fiveStar-312x120.png

46 ms

headphones.svg

headphones.svg

61 ms

computer.svg

computer.svg

85 ms

checkmark-72x72.png

checkmark-72x72.png

54 ms

Refer-Earn-Blade.jpg

Refer-Earn-Blade.jpg

79 ms

packages.png

packages.png

130 ms

boxes_mobile.png

boxes_mobile.png

76 ms

twitter-logo.svg

twitter-logo.svg

124 ms

linked-in-logo.svg

linked-in-logo.svg

70 ms

facebook-logo.svg

facebook-logo.svg

122 ms

youtube-logo.svg

youtube-logo.svg

192 ms

feedback.gif

feedback.gif

192 ms

jquery.autozam.js

jquery.autozam.js

121 ms

mpel

mpel

11 ms

cookies2.js

cookies2.js

119 ms

locator.js

locator.js

189 ms

mpel_ssd.js

mpel_ssd.js

21 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.2.min.js

jquery-ui-1.13.2.min.js

154 ms

MaisonNeue-Light.otf

MaisonNeue-Light.otf

29 ms

MaisonNeue-Medium.otf

MaisonNeue-Medium.otf

30 ms

MaisonNeue-Bold.otf

MaisonNeue-Bold.otf

28 ms

mpel_storage.html

mpel_storage.html

26 ms

el3.gif

el3.gif

80 ms

jqModal.js

jqModal.js

13 ms

jquery.qwest-core.js

jquery.qwest-core.js

25 ms

centurycore.shortcuts.js

centurycore.shortcuts.js

6 ms

Accessibility Review

centurylink.us accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

centurylink.us best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

centurylink.us SEO score

82

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Centurylink.us 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 Centurylink.us 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

centurylink.us

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