Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

smartforce.com

SmartForce®

Page Load Speed

16.7 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

16.1 sec

Page Rendered

458 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smartforce.com page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 16.5 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

smartforce.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.592

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smartforce.com

198 ms

www.skillsoft.com

15055 ms

main.css

75 ms

forms2.min.js

18 ms

main.js

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smartforce.com, 75% (49 requests) were made to Skillsoft.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.1 sec) relates to the external source Skillsoft.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 500.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Smartforce.com main page is 3.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 40.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Smart Force images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 371.8 kB

  • Original 547.3 kB
  • After minification 544.9 kB
  • After compression 175.5 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 371.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 98.5 kB
  • After minification 98.0 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Smartforce.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 84.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (27%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smart Force. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smartforce.com accessibility score

46

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

smartforce.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

smartforce.com SEO score

87

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

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 Smartforce.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 Smartforce.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 Smart Force. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: