Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

icai.in

ICAI - The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

355 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing ICAI content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about icai.in

ICAI - The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India set up by an act of parliament. ICAI is established under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 (Act No. XXXVIII of 1949)

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Key Findings

We analyzed Icai.in page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 5.1 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

icai.in performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

icai.in

2289 ms

style.css

640 ms

icai.png

866 ms

icaiimages.png

653 ms

t.png

1085 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Icai.in, 13% (6 requests) were made to Icai.org and 11% (5 requests) were made to Others.cdn.icai.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Icai.in.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 301.4 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

957.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Icai.in main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 919.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 123.4 kB

  • Original 141.7 kB
  • After minification 120.0 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 21.7 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 123.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 919.0 kB
  • After minification 886.4 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. ICAI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 128.4 kB

  • Original 177.9 kB
  • After minification 145.8 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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 128.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Icai.in needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (38%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ICAI. 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

icai.in accessibility score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

icai.in best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

icai.in SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Icai.in 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 Icai.in main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 ICAI. 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: