Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

cdn.glocals.com

glocals – Largest Community of expats & International Locals in Switzerland

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

739 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

cdn.glocals.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cdn.glocals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 739 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cdn.glocals.com performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.265

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cdn.glocals.com

739 ms

css

263 ms

ext-all.css

315 ms

xtheme-gray.css

325 ms

styles.1.css

779 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Cdn.glocals.com, 77% (71 requests) were made to Glocals.com and 10% (9 requests) were made to Extjs.cachefly.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Glocals.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 423.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

682.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Cdn.glocals.com main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 517.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 54.6 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.3 kB, which is 15% 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 54.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 394.8 kB
  • After minification 376.6 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. Cdn G Locals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 253.5 kB

  • Original 517.3 kB
  • After minification 467.5 kB
  • After compression 263.8 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 253.5 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 97.8 kB

  • Original 130.3 kB
  • After minification 121.3 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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. Cdn.glocals.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 97.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (65%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cdn G Locals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cdn.glocals.com accessibility score

49

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

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

cdn.glocals.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

cdn.glocals.com SEO score

62

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cdn.glocals.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 Cdn.glocals.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 Cdn G Locals. 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: