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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

currencylayer.com

Currencylayer API - Currency Converter and Exchange Rates API

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

690 ms

Page Rendered

619 ms

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About Website

Visit currencylayer.com now to see the best up-to-date Currencylayer content for Thailand and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about currencylayer.com

Access the Currencylayer API, a free and startup-friendly currency converter JSON API offering real-time & historical exchange rates for 168 world currencies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Currencylayer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 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

currencylayer.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

currencylayer.com

98 ms

gtm.js

88 ms

icon-font.min.css

158 ms

font-awesome.min.css

61 ms

style.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Currencylayer.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.linearicons.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (308 ms) relates to the external source Wac-cdn.atlassian.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 171.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Currencylayer.com main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 976.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 31.9 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 12.3 kB, which is 28% 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 35.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 976.4 kB
  • After minification 844.2 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, Currencylayer needs image optimization as it can save up to 132.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 253.7 kB
  • After minification 253.7 kB
  • After compression 251.7 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. Currencylayer.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (15%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Currencylayer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

currencylayer.com

currencylayer.com

98 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

88 ms

icon-font.min.css

icon-font.min.css

158 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

61 ms

style.css

style.css

28 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

42 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

43 ms

jquery.countTo.js

jquery.countTo.js

54 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

52 ms

api.js

api.js

76 ms

countries.js

countries.js

79 ms

currencylayer_logo.png

currencylayer_logo.png

220 ms

jsd-icon.svg

jsd-icon.svg

308 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

218 ms

Api-PopUp-Banner.png

Api-PopUp-Banner.png

30 ms

world_map_dots.png

world_map_dots.png

30 ms

cust_disney.png

cust_disney.png

27 ms

cust_lyft.png

cust_lyft.png

29 ms

cust_griffin.png

cust_griffin.png

26 ms

cust_teamviewer.png

cust_teamviewer.png

26 ms

cust_freelancer.png

cust_freelancer.png

82 ms

datapoints.png

datapoints.png

86 ms

underline.svg

underline.svg

83 ms

fine_waves.svg

fine_waves.svg

85 ms

index_forex.png

index_forex.png

82 ms

index_integration.png

index_integration.png

86 ms

index_features.png

index_features.png

87 ms

index_budget.png

index_budget.png

88 ms

world_map_fade.svg

world_map_fade.svg

88 ms

datapoints_flip.png

datapoints_flip.png

92 ms

cust_intel.png

cust_intel.png

94 ms

cust_fedex_color_2.png

cust_fedex_color_2.png

90 ms

cust_opera.png

cust_opera.png

97 ms

cust_jetblue.png

cust_jetblue.png

90 ms

cust_blizzard.png

cust_blizzard.png

92 ms

api-icon-bg.png

api-icon-bg.png

94 ms

exchangerates_data-one.png

exchangerates_data-one.png

94 ms

currency_data-one.png

currency_data-one.png

95 ms

bank_data-one.png

bank_data-one.png

95 ms

tax_data.png

tax_data.png

96 ms

world_map_fade_vanish.svg

world_map_fade_vanish.svg

97 ms

currencylayer_logo_footer.png

currencylayer_logo_footer.png

101 ms

github-original.svg

github-original.svg

99 ms

facebook-original.svg

facebook-original.svg

106 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

120 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

120 ms

twitter-original.svg

twitter-original.svg

108 ms

linkedin-original.svg

linkedin-original.svg

110 ms

Promo-Bold.woff

Promo-Bold.woff

111 ms

Promo-Med.woff

Promo-Med.woff

125 ms

Linearicons.ttf

Linearicons.ttf

121 ms

Accessibility Review

currencylayer.com accessibility score

79

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

currencylayer.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

currencylayer.com SEO score

78

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

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

    UTF-8

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

currencylayer.com

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