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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

highways.today

News and Resources for the International Construction Industry - Highways Today

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

189 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

965 ms

highways.today screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Highways content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about highways.today

News, stories and Resources for the International Construction Industry - Highways, Airports, Rail, Tunnels and Bridges

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highways.today page load time and found that the first response time was 189 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

highways.today performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

highways.today

189 ms

highways.today

997 ms

js

54 ms

style.min.css

248 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

252 ms

Our browser made a total of 167 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (166 requests) were addressed to the original Highways.today, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Highways.today.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (32%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Highways.today main page is 6.5 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 322.3 kB

  • Original 363.9 kB
  • After minification 287.0 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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 76.9 kB, which is 21% 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 322.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 362.1 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Highways images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 272.7 kB

  • Original 387.4 kB
  • After minification 371.7 kB
  • After compression 114.7 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 272.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 185.0 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. Highways.today needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (14%)

Requests Now

155

After Optimization

133

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 155 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Highways. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

highways.today accessibility score

68

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

highways.today best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

highways.today SEO score

83

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

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 Highways.today 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 Highways.today 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

highways.today

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Highways. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: