Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

marketrateconsulting.com

Market Rate Consulting | Business and Technology Consulting Firm based in Des Moines, IA

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

marketrateconsulting.com screenshot

About Website

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An innovative business and technology consulting firm based in Des Moines, IA, focused on providing career consultants to businesses of all kinds

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marketrateconsulting.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marketrateconsulting.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,890 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.marketrateconsulting.com

1065 ms

css

15 ms

layerslider.css

48 ms

css

47 ms

styles.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Marketrateconsulting.com, 16% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Marketrateconsulting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (72%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

935.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Marketrateconsulting.com main page is 3.3 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. 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. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 39.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 114.3 kB
  • After minification 113.2 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. Market Rate Consulting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 656.0 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 1.1 MB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 156.5 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. Marketrateconsulting.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (81%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Market Rate Consulting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

marketrateconsulting.com accessibility score

78

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

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

marketrateconsulting.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

marketrateconsulting.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 Marketrateconsulting.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 Marketrateconsulting.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 Market Rate Consulting. 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: