Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

netfirms.com

Web Hosting, Domain Name Registration - Netfirms.com

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

7 ms

Resources Loaded

949 ms

Page Rendered

277 ms

netfirms.com screenshot

About Website

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Small business web hosting offering additional business services such as: domain name registrations, email accounts, web services, and various small business solutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Netfirms.com page load time and found that the first response time was 7 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

netfirms.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,890 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.netfirms.com

7 ms

www.netfirms.com

158 ms

gtm.js

88 ms

launch-f6aca7ad8f77.min.js

38 ms

9ba47b3b.4ec4db35.chunk.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Netfirms.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (399 ms) belongs to the original domain Netfirms.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

768.3 kB

After Optimization

699.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Netfirms.com main page is 768.3 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. Javascripts take 516.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 51.4 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 67.4 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 51.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 138.9 kB
  • After minification 134.7 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. Netfirms images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 681 B

  • Original 516.9 kB
  • After minification 516.9 kB
  • After compression 516.2 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

-29%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 45.1 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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. Netfirms.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (76%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Netfirms. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

netfirms.com accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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.

Best Practices

netfirms.com best practices score

67

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

netfirms.com SEO score

91

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

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 Netfirms.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 Netfirms.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 Netfirms. 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: