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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

xero.com

Accounting Software – Do Beautiful Business | Xero US

Page Load Speed

91.8 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

55.7 sec

Page Rendered

36 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Xero.com page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 91.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

xero.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.193

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.xero.com

200 ms

256 ms

modernizr.1.37.0.js

120 ms

screen.1.37.0.css

220 ms

head.lc-1504200651761-lc.min.js

220 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Xero.com, 11% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.6 sec) relates to the external source Xerolimited.tt.omtrdc.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.6 MB (49%)

Content Size

9.3 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Xero.com main page is 9.3 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 144.0 kB

  • Original 172.0 kB
  • After minification 126.8 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 45.1 kB, which is 26% 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 144.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Xero images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 3.6 MB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 5.1 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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 3.6 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 776.0 kB

  • Original 915.8 kB
  • After minification 907.8 kB
  • After compression 139.8 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. Xero.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 776.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (48%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Xero. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.xero.com

www.xero.com

200 ms

256 ms

modernizr.1.37.0.js

modernizr.1.37.0.js

120 ms

screen.1.37.0.css

screen.1.37.0.css

220 ms

head.lc-1504200651761-lc.min.js

head.lc-1504200651761-lc.min.js

220 ms

body.lc-1504200651761-lc.min.js

body.lc-1504200651761-lc.min.js

183 ms

global.1.37.0.js

global.1.37.0.js

3728 ms

munchkin.js

munchkin.js

5257 ms

id

id

2782 ms

logo-xero-blue.svg

logo-xero-blue.svg

1269 ms

devices-homepage-US.png

devices-homepage-US.png

1496 ms

app-store-badge.svg

app-store-badge.svg

1496 ms

play-store-badge.svg

play-store-badge.svg

1271 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

6162 ms

id

id

6230 ms

icon.svg

icon.svg

2229 ms

hero-mt-tam.png

hero-mt-tam.png

6649 ms

json

json

12266 ms

json

json

12562 ms

partners-sprite-padding.svg

partners-sprite-padding.svg

667 ms

testimonial-spitfire-girl.jpg

testimonial-spitfire-girl.jpg

617 ms

testimonial-horsetooth-hotsauce.jpg

testimonial-horsetooth-hotsauce.jpg

666 ms

image.adapt.1800.medium.jpg

image.adapt.1800.medium.jpg

666 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Wa7AxgAAAVo3-lQm

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Wa7AxgAAAVo3-lQm

615 ms

id

id

11578 ms

national-regular.woff

national-regular.woff

11652 ms

national-semibold.woff

national-semibold.woff

11652 ms

national-book.woff

national-book.woff

11651 ms

national-light.woff

national-light.woff

11839 ms

munchkin.js

munchkin.js

12017 ms

json

json

2022 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

4601 ms

united%20states

united%20states

11559 ms

captcha

captcha

8844 ms

api.js

api.js

10286 ms

cse.js

cse.js

5234 ms

visitWebPage

visitWebPage

4182 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

3399 ms

bat.js

bat.js

3510 ms

hotjar-11035.js

hotjar-11035.js

3339 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

3820 ms

activityi;src=4944433;type=allpa0;cat=xerof00;ord=1;num=7789983555256;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xero.com%2Fus%2F

activityi;src=4944433;type=allpa0;cat=xerof00;ord=1;num=7789983555256;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xero.com%2Fus%2F

6028 ms

activityi;src=4944433;type=allpa0;cat=xerof0;ord=4569219644926;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xero.com%2Fus%2F

activityi;src=4944433;type=allpa0;cat=xerof0;ord=4569219644926;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.xero.com%2Fus%2F

5535 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

5444 ms

jsapi

jsapi

1233 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

1121 ms

default.css

default.css

3661 ms

default+en.I.js

default+en.I.js

4189 ms

1493915637569220

1493915637569220

2539 ms

modules-f524bccd859bfc7e394e1123f7f90405.js

modules-f524bccd859bfc7e394e1123f7f90405.js

8725 ms

rcj-99d43ead6bdf30da8ed5ffcb4f17100c.html

rcj-99d43ead6bdf30da8ed5ffcb4f17100c.html

8639 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

2255 ms

6627 ms

collect

collect

3548 ms

collect

collect

5038 ms

collect

collect

3517 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

4451 ms

googlelogo_grey_46x15dp.png

googlelogo_grey_46x15dp.png

4244 ms

1490 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

396 ms

nr-spa-1016.min.js

nr-spa-1016.min.js

299 ms

Accessibility Review

xero.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

xero.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

xero.com SEO score

100

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

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 Xero.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 Xero.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

xero.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Xero. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: