Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

ascedia.com

Web Design, Development, Digital Strategy | Ascedia

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

964 ms

ascedia.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ascedia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ascedia.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.304

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ascedia.com

124 ms

www.ascedia.com

2560 ms

GetResource.ashx

140 ms

put8ehr.js

161 ms

GetResource.ashx

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Ascedia.com, 4% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.edgecommons.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Ascedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 948.1 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Ascedia.com main page is 3.5 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. 75% 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. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 161.2 kB

  • Original 187.0 kB
  • After minification 166.3 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.7 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 161.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 122.2 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Ascedia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 463.9 kB

  • Original 747.5 kB
  • After minification 719.3 kB
  • After compression 283.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 463.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 200.7 kB

  • Original 229.0 kB
  • After minification 228.7 kB
  • After compression 28.3 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. Ascedia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 200.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (36%)

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

82

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ascedia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ascedia.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

ascedia.com best practices score

83

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

ascedia.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ascedia.com 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 Ascedia.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 description is not detected on the main page of Ascedia. 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: