Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

astpos.com

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Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

440 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Astpos.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

astpos.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.235

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.astpos.com

1251 ms

foundation.css

69 ms

app.css

66 ms

shortcode.css

67 ms

elements.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Astpos.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Astpos.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 234.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Astpos.com main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 46.6 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 38.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 986.5 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. Obviously, AST POS needs image optimization as it can save up to 153.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 255.8 kB
  • After minification 255.7 kB
  • After compression 227.7 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 28.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. Astpos.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.7 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (65%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AST POS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

astpos.com accessibility score

69

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

astpos.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

astpos.com SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Astpos.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 Astpos.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 AST POS. 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: