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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

comptia.com

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Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comptia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comptia.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,330 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.comptia.org

345 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

151 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

34 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

96 ms

mvcfoolproof.unobtrusive.js

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Comptia.com, 10% (13 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Comptia.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (863 ms) relates to the external source 698237a02db3f0e434bbdc751f917051.azr.footprintdns.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 376.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

9.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Comptia.com main page is 9.4 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 8.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 140.4 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 161.9 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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 140.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 193.7 kB

  • Original 8.9 MB
  • After minification 8.7 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. CompTIA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 152.6 kB
  • After minification 152.6 kB
  • After compression 144.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 133.1 kB
  • After minification 133.1 kB
  • After compression 98.0 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. Comptia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.1 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (54%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CompTIA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.comptia.org

www.comptia.org

345 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

jquery-latest.min.js

151 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

34 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

96 ms

mvcfoolproof.unobtrusive.js

mvcfoolproof.unobtrusive.js

95 ms

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js.cookie-2.2.0.min.js

95 ms

project.min.js

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144 ms

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main.min.css

130 ms

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256 ms

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255 ms

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ws-tracking.js

149 ms

js

js

256 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

254 ms

wootric-sdk.js

wootric-sdk.js

281 ms

initialize.min.js

initialize.min.js

92 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

252 ms

rum.js

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306 ms

ia.js

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309 ms

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309 ms

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468 ms

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491 ms

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488 ms

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492 ms

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715 ms

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491 ms

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546 ms

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620 ms

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616 ms

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701 ms

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703 ms

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700 ms

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703 ms

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704 ms

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706 ms

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707 ms

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709 ms

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705 ms

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709 ms

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716 ms

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718 ms

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716 ms

comptia-logo.png

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711 ms

www.comptia.org.json

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154 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

293 ms

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285 ms

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771 ms

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581 ms

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582 ms

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588 ms

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588 ms

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ctca3-bg.png

594 ms

newpentest-bg.png

newpentest-bg.png

597 ms

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ctca02-bg.jpg

585 ms

affirm-bg.png

affirm-bg.png

591 ms

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592 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

337 ms

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146 ms

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413 ms

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236 ms

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526 ms

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591 ms

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343 ms

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affirm.js

241 ms

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102 ms

www.comptia.org.json

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93 ms

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286 ms

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260 ms

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127 ms

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trans.gif

416 ms

arrow_right.png

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52 ms

arrow_left.png

arrow_left.png

52 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

77 ms

en.json

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18 ms

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63 ms

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164 ms

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81 ms

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164 ms

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341 ms

spm.v1.min.js

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348 ms

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456 ms

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64 ms

adsbygoogle.js

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325 ms

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329 ms

app.bundle.js

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318 ms

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108 ms

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413 ms

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386 ms

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48 ms

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175 ms

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288 ms

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240 ms

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225 ms

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185 ms

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63 ms

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191 ms

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44 ms

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Pug

Pug

264 ms

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237 ms

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86 ms

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9 ms

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46 ms

bounce

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46 ms

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34 ms

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21 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

comptia.com accessibility score

75

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

[role] values are not valid

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

comptia.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

comptia.com SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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 Comptia.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 Comptia.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

comptia.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of CompTIA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: