Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

exchangerate.com

ExchangeRate.com - Currency Exchange Rates

Page Load Speed

53.2 sec in total

First Response

386 ms

Resources Loaded

40.4 sec

Page Rendered

12.4 sec

exchangerate.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to exchangerate.com homepage info - get ready to check Exchange Rate best content for Russia right away, or after learning these important things about exchangerate.com

ExchangeRate.com provides daily currency exchange rates, graphs, photos, country information, and more for over 200 countries and currencies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Exchangerate.com page load time and found that the first response time was 386 ms and then it took 52.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

exchangerate.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,640 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

exchangerate.com

386 ms

www.exchangerate.com

201 ms

xrstyles_rates_tables.css

294 ms

show_ads.js

93 ms

nmedianet.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 180 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Exchangerate.com, 38% (69 requests) were made to S.exchangerate.net and 19% (35 requests) were made to A.tribalfusion.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.1 sec) relates to the external source A.tribalfusion.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (60%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

692.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Exchangerate.com main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 65.9 kB
  • After minification 65.3 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 55.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 188.4 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. Exchange Rate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 979.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 491.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 979.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Exchangerate.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 121 (73%)

Requests Now

166

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 166 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Exchange Rate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

exchangerate.com accessibility score

59

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

exchangerate.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

exchangerate.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Exchangerate.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 Exchangerate.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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