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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

visualstudio.net

Visual Studio: IDE and Code Editor for Software Developers and Teams

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

722 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visualstudio.net page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

visualstudio.net performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visualstudio.microsoft.com

152 ms

vscom-swimlane.css

93 ms

microsoft-uhf.css

35 ms

vscom-video-player.min.css

37 ms

vscom-feature-hero.min.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Visualstudio.net, 3% (5 requests) were made to C.s-microsoft.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Microsoft.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (530 ms) relates to the external source Visualstudio.microsoft.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (59%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

907.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Visualstudio.net 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 807.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 273.9 kB

  • Original 334.5 kB
  • After minification 315.0 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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 273.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 538.8 kB
  • After minification 522.0 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. Visual Studio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 340.9 kB

  • Original 512.3 kB
  • After minification 512.3 kB
  • After compression 171.4 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 340.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 654.1 kB

  • Original 807.8 kB
  • After minification 798.8 kB
  • After compression 153.8 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. Visualstudio.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 654.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 97 (69%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visual Studio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 70 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

visualstudio.microsoft.com

visualstudio.microsoft.com

152 ms

vscom-swimlane.css

vscom-swimlane.css

93 ms

microsoft-uhf.css

microsoft-uhf.css

35 ms

vscom-video-player.min.css

vscom-video-player.min.css

37 ms

vscom-feature-hero.min.css

vscom-feature-hero.min.css

35 ms

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vscom-builder-tabs.min.css

40 ms

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vscom-single-box.min.css

37 ms

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46 ms

vscom-collage.min.css

vscom-collage.min.css

47 ms

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52 ms

vscom-video-carousel.min.css

vscom-video-carousel.min.css

49 ms

vscom-icons.css

vscom-icons.css

58 ms

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59 ms

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66 ms

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66 ms

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89 ms

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89 ms

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95 ms

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99 ms

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133 ms

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105 ms

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104 ms

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104 ms

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53 ms

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85 ms

vscom-gif-player.min.css

vscom-gif-player.min.css

102 ms

vscom-slider.min.css

vscom-slider.min.css

103 ms

vscomDomReady.min.js

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101 ms

common.min.js

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102 ms

vscom-gif-player.min.js

vscom-gif-player.min.js

103 ms

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109 ms

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104 ms

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114 ms

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246 ms

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239 ms

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106 ms

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243 ms

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Product-Icon.svg

104 ms

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Windows.svg

108 ms

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106 ms

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apple_logo.svg

120 ms

Linux.svg

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119 ms

vscom-img-placeholder.png

vscom-img-placeholder.png

121 ms

Build_bg.webp

Build_bg.webp

166 ms

NETdaybg.webp

NETdaybg.webp

167 ms

VS-Miniseries-Background.webp

VS-Miniseries-Background.webp

166 ms

copilot-carousel-bg.webp

copilot-carousel-bg.webp

240 ms

Devbox_Large-Background.webp

Devbox_Large-Background.webp

240 ms

VSCOM_banners_MSBuild24_805x550-1.jpg

VSCOM_banners_MSBuild24_805x550-1.jpg

243 ms

visualstudio.microsoft.com

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239 ms

NETday.webp

NETday.webp

298 ms

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VS-Miniseries-Carousel3.webp

329 ms

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CP_Logo_background.jpg

297 ms

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Devbox_Foreground_V2.webp

301 ms

extensions-bg.svg

extensions-bg.svg

302 ms

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300 ms

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303 ms

copilot-ext-main.webp

copilot-ext-main.webp

306 ms

Copilot-circle-gradient-stroke.svg

Copilot-circle-gradient-stroke.svg

304 ms

Github.svg

Github.svg

307 ms

GitHub_Icon.svg

GitHub_Icon.svg

318 ms

ProductivityPowertools-1.webp

ProductivityPowertools-1.webp

307 ms

ProductivityPowerTools_Icon.svg

ProductivityPowerTools_Icon.svg

320 ms

VisualStudioThemePack.webp

VisualStudioThemePack.webp

319 ms

ThemePack_Icon.svg

ThemePack_Icon.svg

322 ms

Launch.svg

Launch.svg

324 ms

alaska.png

alaska.png

327 ms

dc-water.png

dc-water.png

326 ms

chipotle.png

chipotle.png

328 ms

real-madrid.png

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269 ms

latest.woff

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102 ms

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176 ms

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181 ms

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181 ms

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57 ms

SegoeUI-Semibold.woff

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268 ms

SegoeUI-Bold.woff

SegoeUI-Bold.woff

266 ms

SegoeUI.woff

SegoeUI.woff

269 ms

SegoeUI-Light.woff

SegoeUI-Light.woff

530 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

123 ms

vscom.ttf

vscom.ttf

212 ms

VSCOMIcons.woff

VSCOMIcons.woff

251 ms

godaddy.png

godaddy.png

249 ms

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ge-aviation.png

206 ms

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207 ms

UPS.png

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205 ms

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136 ms

Apple_Opaque.svg

Apple_Opaque.svg

136 ms

X-logo.svg

X-logo.svg

138 ms

Facebook.svg

Facebook.svg

137 ms

Linkedin.svg

Linkedin.svg

137 ms

Youtube.svg

Youtube.svg

133 ms

edit-outline.svg

edit-outline.svg

82 ms

vscom-subsup.min.css

vscom-subsup.min.css

27 ms

fullwidth-md.min.css

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11 ms

fullwidth-sm.min.css

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12 ms

image-md.min.css

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12 ms

image-sm.min.css

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section-separator-md.min.css

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12 ms

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ofi.min.js

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hammer.min.js

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vscom.min.js

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69 ms

Accessibility Review

visualstudio.net accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

visualstudio.net best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

visualstudio.net SEO score

64

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Visualstudio.net 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 Visualstudio.net 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

visualstudio.net

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