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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

us.practicallaw.com

Practical Law US

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

213 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Us.practicallaw.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

us.practicallaw.com performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,750 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.458

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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1473 ms

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390 ms

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279 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Us.practicallaw.com, 10% (8 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Us.practicallaw.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (71%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

454.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Us.practicallaw.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 901.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 86.3 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 35.3 kB, which is 41% 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 72.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 38.6 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, US Practical Law needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 580.9 kB

  • Original 901.6 kB
  • After minification 898.5 kB
  • After compression 320.7 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 580.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 461.7 kB

  • Original 542.8 kB
  • After minification 451.1 kB
  • After compression 81.2 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. Us.practicallaw.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 461.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (66%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of US Practical Law. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

us.practicallaw.com accessibility score

75

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

us.practicallaw.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

us.practicallaw.com SEO score

57

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Us.practicallaw.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Us.practicallaw.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

us.practicallaw.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of US Practical Law. 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: