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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

corporate-portal

119 ms

antiflicker.min.js

16 ms

vg-ccc-serverless.js

24 ms

794d58ed0a54dd14.css

20 ms

85d94dc49dc1b3e7.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Vanguard.com, 15% (3 requests) were made to Constellation-static.web.vanguard.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Mc3-static-assets.web.vanguard.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (119 ms) relates to the external source Investor.vanguard.com.

Content Size

759.0 kB

After Optimization

484.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Vanguard.com main page is 759.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 490.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

Original 25.1 kB
After minification 25.1 kB
After compression 5.7 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 19.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

Original 147.0 kB
After minification 147.0 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. Vanguard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 214.1 kB

Original 490.2 kB
After minification 489.4 kB
After compression 276.1 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 214.1 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

Original 96.8 kB
After minification 96.8 kB
After compression 55.2 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. Vanguard.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.6 kB or 43% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vanguard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

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 Vanguard.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 Vanguard.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

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

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Best Practices

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Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)