Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

layer8security.com

Cybersecurity Solutions | Layer 8 Security

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

456 ms

Page Rendered

633 ms

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About Website

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Layer 8 Security is a cybersecurity consulting, advisory, and technical services firm that arms organizations with practical strategies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Layer8security.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

layer8security.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.074

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

layer8security.com

47 ms

layer8security.com

39 ms

styles.css

8 ms

cookieblocker.min.css

14 ms

css2

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Layer8security.com, 9% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (201 ms) belongs to the original domain Layer8security.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

751.6 kB

After Optimization

647.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Layer8security.com main page is 751.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 568.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 70.5 kB

  • Original 81.8 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 21.6 kB, which is 26% 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 70.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 568.1 kB
  • After minification 555.0 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. Layer 8 Security images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 34.8 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 6.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 66.9 kB
  • After minification 66.9 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. Layer8security.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (33%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Layer 8 Security. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

layer8security.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated 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

layer8security.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

layer8security.com SEO score

86

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

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 Layer8security.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 Layer8security.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 data is detected on the main page of Layer 8 Security. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: