Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

thehartfordgoldgroup.com

Trusted Leader in Precious Metals | American Hartford Gold

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

727 ms

Page Rendered

675 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehartfordgoldgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehartfordgoldgroup.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value40.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,260 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehartfordgoldgroup.com

105 ms

main.css

7 ms

style.css

9 ms

jquery.min.js

17 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (100 requests) were addressed to the original Thehartfordgoldgroup.com, 2% (2 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Integration.nfusionsolutions.biz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) belongs to the original domain Thehartfordgoldgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 447.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

24.1 MB

After Optimization

23.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Thehartfordgoldgroup.com main page is 24.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 23.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 34.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 202.3 kB

  • Original 23.8 MB
  • After minification 23.6 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. The Hartford Gold Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 170.2 kB

  • Original 251.6 kB
  • After minification 240.0 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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 170.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. Thehartfordgoldgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (17%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

88

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Hartford Gold Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thehartfordgoldgroup.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

thehartfordgoldgroup.com best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thehartfordgoldgroup.com SEO score

84

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

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 Thehartfordgoldgroup.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 Thehartfordgoldgroup.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 The Hartford Gold Group. 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: