Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

finance.careercast.com

Careercast.com Finance and Legal Network | The premier site to find local and niche jobs

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

469 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

313 ms

finance.careercast.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finance.careercast.com page load time and found that the first response time was 469 ms and then it took 5.3 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

finance.careercast.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finance.careercast.com

469 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

css_r0HzNOJkGEYEb0F4Q-bciEtqrV_QY-4EGaQ_vt6CMSs.css

354 ms

css_EUcOdpTyc_wiwSeRKeMmXRi3WddvIkpZboPzGr6vm1w.css

405 ms

css_d1PyTS8qnicN475cRXNXLVkpE64FHgYAEigMocMli1s.css

589 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Finance.careercast.com, 25% (15 requests) were made to Slb.adicio.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Finance.careercast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 133.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

537.8 kB

After Optimization

404.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Finance.careercast.com main page is 537.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 303.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 140.0 kB
  • After minification 136.2 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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 97.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 303.6 kB
  • After minification 276.4 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. Finance Careercast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 77.8 kB
  • After minification 77.8 kB
  • After compression 70.9 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. Finance.careercast.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (39%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Finance Careercast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

finance.careercast.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

finance.careercast.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

finance.careercast.com SEO score

69

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 doesn't use 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 Finance.careercast.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 Finance.careercast.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

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