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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

plex.com

Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform | Plex, by Rockwell Automation

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

plex.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to plex.com homepage info - get ready to check Plex best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about plex.com

Helping you gain complete control from the shop floor to the top floor was the reason Plex was founded. Learn more about the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plex.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plex.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,730 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.plex.com

49 ms

otSDKStub.js

57 ms

splide-core.min.css

20 ms

splide.min.css

38 ms

splide.base.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 252 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (203 requests) were addressed to the original Plex.com, 4% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (6 requests) were made to Play.vidyard.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (756 ms) belongs to the original domain Plex.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Plex.com main page is 1.6 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 102.7 kB

  • Original 178.1 kB
  • After minification 165.9 kB
  • After compression 75.5 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 102.7 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Plex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 315.1 kB
  • After minification 314.9 kB
  • After compression 239.7 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 75.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 71.2 kB
  • After compression 48.3 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. Plex.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.0 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 201 (83%)

Requests Now

241

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 241 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plex. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 101 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 93 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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49 ms

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Accessibility Review

plex.com accessibility score

80

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

plex.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

plex.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Plex.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 Plex.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

plex.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Plex. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: