Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

use.expensify.com

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Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

699 ms

Page Rendered

459 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Use.expensify.com page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

use.expensify.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.178

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

use.expensify.com

82 ms

common-0437e51819dd863618ab-min.js

63 ms

commerce-1d13bdbc93aaacbb9cbd-min.js

44 ms

commerce-2b4a0593bca72ff9bd48bd03804b62b2-min.css

33 ms

site.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Use.expensify.com, 56% (61 requests) were made to Static1.squarespace.com and 32% (35 requests) were made to Static.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (217 ms) belongs to the original domain Use.expensify.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

997.1 kB

After Optimization

860.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Use.expensify.com main page is 997.1 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 877.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 59.5 kB

  • Original 73.2 kB
  • After minification 56.7 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 16.6 kB, which is 23% 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 59.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 877.3 kB
  • After minification 829.2 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. Use Expensify images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 29.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (13%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

91

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Use Expensify. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

use.expensify.com accessibility score

63

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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 IDs are not unique

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

use.expensify.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

use.expensify.com SEO score

84

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

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 Use.expensify.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 Use.expensify.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 Use Expensify. 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: