Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

expatinch.com

Living in Switzerland - jobs Switzerland, information on Switzerland, travel Switzerland

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expatinch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expatinch.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expatinch.com

275 ms

rollover.js

126 ms

jquery.js

250 ms

fusion.css

128 ms

style.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 243 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (233 requests) were addressed to the original Expatinch.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (451 ms) belongs to the original domain Expatinch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.0 kB (34%)

Content Size

333.8 kB

After Optimization

218.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Expatinch.com main page is 333.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 146.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 101.4 kB

  • Original 116.7 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 101.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 65.2 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. Expatinch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 146.9 kB
  • After minification 146.9 kB
  • After compression 137.0 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

-29%

Potential reduce by 521 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Expatinch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 521 B or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 223 (93%)

Requests Now

239

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 239 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expatinch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

expatinch.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

expatinch.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

expatinch.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Expatinch.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 Expatinch.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 Expatinch. 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: