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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

mail.lycos.com

Lycos Mail

Page Load Speed

832 ms in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

651 ms

Page Rendered

133 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mail.lycos.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 784 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mail.lycos.com performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mail.lycos.com

48 ms

mail.lycos.com

102 ms

oki7ilo.js

46 ms

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

site.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Mail.lycos.com, 29% (10 requests) were made to Ly.lygo.net and 24% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) relates to the external source Ly.lygo.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

601.9 kB

After Optimization

546.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mail.lycos.com main page is 601.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 321.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 26.3 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 24.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 321.0 kB
  • After minification 303.9 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. Mail Lycos images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 209.5 kB
  • After minification 209.4 kB
  • After compression 197.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 42.7 kB
  • After minification 42.7 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Mail.lycos.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (71%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mail Lycos. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mail.lycos.com

mail.lycos.com

48 ms

mail.lycos.com

mail.lycos.com

102 ms

oki7ilo.js

oki7ilo.js

46 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

site.css

site.css

159 ms

uvtHamburger.css

uvtHamburger.css

137 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

53 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

135 ms

universal.js

universal.js

141 ms

js

js

95 ms

init.js

init.js

130 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

214 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

153 ms

mail_scripts.js

mail_scripts.js

151 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

122 ms

yii.js

yii.js

78 ms

yii.validation.js

yii.validation.js

92 ms

yii.activeForm.js

yii.activeForm.js

92 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

107 ms

home.js

home.js

38 ms

lfp-shopping.jpg

lfp-shopping.jpg

234 ms

lycos-menu-ss.png

lycos-menu-ss.png

176 ms

lycosPopertyIcons-30.png

lycosPopertyIcons-30.png

177 ms

lycos-header.png

lycos-header.png

176 ms

ga.js

ga.js

70 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

48 ms

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21 ms

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48 ms

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61 ms

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50 ms

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82 ms

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49 ms

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73 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

Accessibility Review

mail.lycos.com accessibility score

92

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mail.lycos.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mail.lycos.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mail.lycos.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 Mail.lycos.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

mail.lycos.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mail Lycos. 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: