Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ask.yahoo.com

Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

ask.yahoo.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ask.yahoo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ask.yahoo.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,600 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ask.yahoo.com

44 ms

answers.yahoo.com

80 ms

www.yahoo.com

543 ms

fusion.atomic.4bcda63eddf7f21daebdf63a5a8a019c.css

45 ms

commonAtomic.9a392dee1958c9e3377f7f4dff6cf671.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ask.yahoo.com, 69% (88 requests) were made to S.yimg.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Yahoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Tag.idsync.analytics.yahoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 628.3 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

631.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Ask.yahoo.com main page is 1.3 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. 85% 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. HTML takes 822.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 622.6 kB

  • Original 822.8 kB
  • After minification 820.3 kB
  • After compression 200.3 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 622.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 274.9 kB
  • After minification 270.4 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. Ask Yahoo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 503 B

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 73.1 kB
  • After compression 72.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 722 B

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 89.2 kB
  • After compression 88.5 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. Ask.yahoo.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (68%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ask Yahoo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ask.yahoo.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

ask.yahoo.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

ask.yahoo.com SEO score

92

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

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 Ask.yahoo.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 Ask.yahoo.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 Ask Yahoo. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: