Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

ratescalc.com

Business & Wage Compliance Software | Ratescalc.com

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

709 ms

Page Rendered

700 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ratescalc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ratescalc.com performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ratescalc.com

32 ms

www.ratescalc.com

83 ms

ratescalc+logo-1920w.PNG

183 ms

jquery-3.7.0.min.js

45 ms

d-js-one-runtime-unified-desktop.min.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ratescalc.com, 40% (14 requests) were made to Lirp.cdn-website.com and 37% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (294 ms) relates to the external source Embed.tawk.to.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

689.4 kB

After Optimization

519.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Ratescalc.com main page is 689.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 309.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 146.5 kB

  • Original 183.2 kB
  • After minification 178.3 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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 146.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 196.5 kB
  • After minification 196.5 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. Ratescalc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 309.7 kB
  • After minification 309.7 kB
  • After compression 286.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ratescalc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ratescalc.com accessibility score

88

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

ratescalc.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

ratescalc.com SEO score

81

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

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