Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

speedtest.cox.com

Internet Speed Test - Check Your Internet Speed | Cox

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

538 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Speedtest.cox.com page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

speedtest.cox.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.614

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

speedtest.html

94 ms

orgone-Obed-abhorrow-That-Safe-Yong-abroach-it-p

45 ms

flex2.lc-b5a16be0035c30aa2b6c06b40c187e57-lc.min.css

116 ms

flex2.lc-74983398942142bbd6c7a78c1115724b-lc.min.js

136 ms

flex2-presentation.css

133 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Speedtest.cox.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Coxcommunications.mpeasylink.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Cox.speedtestcustom.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Cox.speedtestcustom.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 464.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Speedtest.cox.com main page is 3.5 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 241.1 kB

  • Original 276.8 kB
  • After minification 211.2 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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 65.7 kB, which is 24% 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 241.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 222.7 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Speed Test Cox images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 152 B

  • Original 439.2 kB
  • After minification 439.2 kB
  • After compression 439.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 465 B

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 94.3 kB
  • After compression 93.8 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. Speedtest.cox.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (46%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Speed Test Cox. 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

speedtest.cox.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

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

speedtest.cox.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

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

speedtest.cox.com SEO score

90

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 Speedtest.cox.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 Speedtest.cox.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 data is detected on the main page of Speed Test Cox. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: