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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp

[Rakuten Global Express] Rakuten's Official International Shipping (Forwarding) Service

Page Load Speed

14.5 sec in total

First Response

925 ms

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp page load time and found that the first response time was 925 ms and then it took 13.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.796

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp

925 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

60 ms

otSDKStub.js

76 ms

toolkit-light.min.css

1364 ms

common.css

700 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp, 4% (5 requests) were made to Point.widget.rakuten.co.jp and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) relates to the external source Mistore.jp.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 582.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.5 kB

  • Original 54.3 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 9.4 kB, which is 17% 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 43.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 150.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Global Express Rakuten images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 110.2 kB

  • Original 184.3 kB
  • After minification 181.4 kB
  • After compression 74.1 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 110.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 278.0 kB

  • Original 327.2 kB
  • After minification 297.5 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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. Globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 278.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (26%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

85

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Global Express Rakuten. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp

925 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

60 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

76 ms

toolkit-light.min.css

toolkit-light.min.css

1364 ms

common.css

common.css

700 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1041 ms

custom_sp.css

custom_sp.css

718 ms

point_counter.css

point_counter.css

719 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

33 ms

custom.js

custom.js

352 ms

point_counter.js

point_counter.js

537 ms

modal.js

modal.js

716 ms

edge.js

edge.js

217 ms

builder.js

builder.js

587 ms

parts

parts

1242 ms

parts

parts

1263 ms

slick.css

slick.css

869 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

897 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1042 ms

index.css

index.css

887 ms

index.js

index.js

1040 ms

34dd088a-b745-419c-973a-3b0b31c82758.json

34dd088a-b745-419c-973a-3b0b31c82758.json

21 ms

location

location

60 ms

rat-main.js

rat-main.js

190 ms

create.js

create.js

805 ms

isetan_120_60.jpg

isetan_120_60.jpg

8200 ms

120_60.jpg

120_60.jpg

329 ms

8f.png

8f.png

71 ms

background_pc.svg

background_pc.svg

198 ms

background_pc.svg

background_pc.svg

218 ms

header_lang.svg

header_lang.svg

173 ms

header_mypage_icon.png

header_mypage_icon.png

182 ms

header_logo.svg

header_logo.svg

183 ms

header_logo.svg

header_logo.svg

175 ms

header_menu_button_en.png

header_menu_button_en.png

353 ms

header_mypage_button_en.png

header_mypage_button_en.png

358 ms

header_lang_en.svg

header_lang_en.svg

361 ms

header_menu_close_button.png

header_menu_close_button.png

357 ms

index_kv_text_en.svg

index_kv_text_en.svg

1036 ms

index_kv_sp_en.svg

index_kv_sp_en.svg

885 ms

index_flow_pc_en.svg

index_flow_pc_en.svg

842 ms

index_flow_sp_en.svg

index_flow_sp_en.svg

697 ms

index_merit_1.svg

index_merit_1.svg

531 ms

index_merit_2.svg

index_merit_2.svg

1490 ms

index_merit_3.svg

index_merit_3.svg

720 ms

index_merit_4.svg

index_merit_4.svg

963 ms

index_merit_5.svg

index_merit_5.svg

1117 ms

index_merit_6.svg

index_merit_6.svg

1014 ms

recommend_bg_pc_1.png

recommend_bg_pc_1.png

1116 ms

recommend_bg_sp_1.png

recommend_bg_sp_1.png

1134 ms

recommend_illus_1_1.svg

recommend_illus_1_1.svg

1184 ms

recommend_illus_1_2.svg

recommend_illus_1_2.svg

1219 ms

recommend_bg_pc_2.png

recommend_bg_pc_2.png

1246 ms

recommend_bg_sp_2.png

recommend_bg_sp_2.png

1236 ms

recommend_illus_2_1.svg

recommend_illus_2_1.svg

1254 ms

recommend_illus_2_2.svg

recommend_illus_2_2.svg

1352 ms

recommend_bg_pc_3.png

recommend_bg_pc_3.png

1401 ms

recommend_bg_sp_3.png

recommend_bg_sp_3.png

1416 ms

recommend_illus_3_1.svg

recommend_illus_3_1.svg

1433 ms

recommend_illus_3_2.svg

recommend_illus_3_2.svg

1424 ms

shampoo.jpg

shampoo.jpg

1532 ms

hk.png

hk.png

1589 ms

cd.jpg

cd.jpg

1585 ms

c5.gif

c5.gif

67 ms

parts

parts

220 ms

us.png

us.png

1584 ms

parts

parts

214 ms

sake.jpg

sake.jpg

1438 ms

tw.png

tw.png

1489 ms

book.jpg

book.jpg

1522 ms

bag.jpg

bag.jpg

1578 ms

au.png

au.png

1578 ms

golfclub.jpg

golfclub.jpg

1559 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

752 ms

sg.png

sg.png

1444 ms

figure.jpg

figure.jpg

1486 ms

gb.png

gb.png

1521 ms

clothes.jpg

clothes.jpg

1575 ms

kr.png

kr.png

1411 ms

watch.jpg

watch.jpg

1245 ms

br.png

br.png

1258 ms

kimono.jpg

kimono.jpg

1151 ms

th.png

th.png

1097 ms

sneaker.jpg

sneaker.jpg

1111 ms

in.png

in.png

1112 ms

tshirt.jpg

tshirt.jpg

1031 ms

rakuten_ichiba.png

rakuten_ichiba.png

1026 ms

zutto_logo_120_60.jpg

zutto_logo_120_60.jpg

1066 ms

2202_nanologo_120_60.jpg

2202_nanologo_120_60.jpg

1096 ms

mizuno_sitelogo120_60_b.gif

mizuno_sitelogo120_60_b.gif

1103 ms

sonymusic_logo_430_200.jpg

sonymusic_logo_430_200.jpg

1096 ms

bellemaison_logo_120_60.gif

bellemaison_logo_120_60.gif

1082 ms

new_balance_120x60.jpg

new_balance_120x60.jpg

1085 ms

hmv_books.jpg

hmv_books.jpg

1117 ms

services_prohibited_item.svg

services_prohibited_item.svg

1051 ms

services_country.svg

services_country.svg

1060 ms

services_fee.svg

services_fee.svg

1080 ms

services_insurance.svg

services_insurance.svg

1065 ms

services_payment.svg

services_payment.svg

1071 ms

index_warehouse_pc_en.svg

index_warehouse_pc_en.svg

1029 ms

index_warehouse_sp.svg

index_warehouse_sp.svg

1062 ms

rakuten_logo.png

rakuten_logo.png

1057 ms

FB.png

FB.png

1078 ms

X.png

X.png

1076 ms

IG.png

IG.png

1072 ms

example_en.jpg

example_en.jpg

1068 ms

example_en.png

example_en.png

1080 ms

background_sp_right.svg

background_sp_right.svg

1061 ms

background_sp_left.svg

background_sp_left.svg

1066 ms

background_sp_right.svg

background_sp_right.svg

1085 ms

background_sp_left.svg

background_sp_left.svg

1066 ms

index_kv_wide_bg.png

index_kv_wide_bg.png

1063 ms

register.svg

register.svg

1089 ms

estimate.svg

estimate.svg

1061 ms

chevron_down.svg

chevron_down.svg

1063 ms

back_to_top.svg

back_to_top.svg

1077 ms

Accessibility Review

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp accessibility score

82

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp SEO score

85

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

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 Globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp 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 Globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp 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

globalexpress.rakuten.co.jp

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