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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

root.lu

Hosting, Dedicated Servers and Domain Names | root S.A.

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Root.lu page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

root.lu performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

root.lu

297 ms

fonts.css

94 ms

root.css

187 ms

home.css

188 ms

content.css

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Root.lu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (916 ms) belongs to the original domain Root.lu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

341.5 kB

After Optimization

320.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Root.lu main page is 341.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 288.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 13.3 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 10.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 288.5 kB
  • After minification 279.4 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. Root images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 373 B

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Root.lu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (28%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Root. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

root.lu

root.lu

297 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

94 ms

root.css

root.css

187 ms

home.css

home.css

188 ms

content.css

content.css

189 ms

slimbox.css

slimbox.css

189 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

288 ms

mootools_more.js

mootools_more.js

197 ms

slimbox.js

slimbox.js

279 ms

root.js

root.js

280 ms

root_head_bg.gif

root_head_bg.gif

184 ms

root_logo.png

root_logo.png

97 ms

root_site_button.png

root_site_button.png

96 ms

root_site_button_dropdown.png

root_site_button_dropdown.png

96 ms

root_head_legal_bg.gif

root_head_legal_bg.gif

98 ms

root_navi_bg.gif

root_navi_bg.gif

96 ms

rootmainnavi_home.gif

rootmainnavi_home.gif

186 ms

root_orange_bg.jpg

root_orange_bg.jpg

644 ms

root_ads_sg_sale-79.png

root_ads_sg_sale-79.png

460 ms

root_ads_sg_sale-35.png

root_ads_sg_sale-35.png

461 ms

root_home_standart-1.png

root_home_standart-1.png

380 ms

root_box_bg_1.gif

root_box_bg_1.gif

276 ms

root_home_head_servers.gif

root_home_head_servers.gif

278 ms

root_home_icon_servers.gif

root_home_icon_servers.gif

369 ms

root_home_moreinfo.gif

root_home_moreinfo.gif

370 ms

root_box_bg_2.gif

root_box_bg_2.gif

461 ms

root_home_head_rackspace.gif

root_home_head_rackspace.gif

461 ms

root_home_icon_rackspace.gif

root_home_icon_rackspace.gif

475 ms

root_box_bg_3.gif

root_box_bg_3.gif

552 ms

root_home_head_webhosting.gif

root_home_head_webhosting.gif

553 ms

root_home_icon_webhosting.gif

root_home_icon_webhosting.gif

553 ms

root_box_bg_4.gif

root_box_bg_4.gif

553 ms

root_home_head_webdev.gif

root_home_head_webdev.gif

569 ms

root_home_icon_webdev.gif

root_home_icon_webdev.gif

644 ms

root_box_bg_5.gif

root_box_bg_5.gif

645 ms

root_home_head_services.gif

root_home_head_services.gif

645 ms

root_home_icon_services.gif

root_home_icon_services.gif

646 ms

root_box_bg_6.gif

root_box_bg_6.gif

664 ms

root_home_head_network.gif

root_home_head_network.gif

734 ms

root_home_icon_network.gif

root_home_icon_network.gif

736 ms

root_horizontal_splitline.gif

root_horizontal_splitline.gif

737 ms

root_home_aboutus.gif

root_home_aboutus.gif

737 ms

root_home_fb.gif

root_home_fb.gif

737 ms

root_home_vertical_splitline1.gif

root_home_vertical_splitline1.gif

759 ms

root_home_twitter.gif

root_home_twitter.gif

826 ms

root_home_gp.gif

root_home_gp.gif

820 ms

root_home_li.gif

root_home_li.gif

737 ms

root_home_domainsearch.gif

root_home_domainsearch.gif

737 ms

root_home_input_bg.gif

root_home_input_bg.gif

737 ms

root_home_searchbutton.gif

root_home_searchbutton.gif

761 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

916 ms

root_home_contact.gif

root_home_contact.gif

740 ms

root_foot_bg.gif

root_foot_bg.gif

738 ms

styletype.gif

styletype.gif

649 ms

Accessibility Review

root.lu accessibility score

71

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

root.lu best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

root.lu SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Root.lu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Root.lu 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

root.lu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Root. 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: