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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

about.ch

About Switzerland

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

458 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

about.ch screenshot

About Website

Welcome to about.ch homepage info - get ready to check About best content for Switzerland right away, or after learning these important things about about.ch

General Information about Switzerland, including facts about Administration, Cantons, Culture, Economy, Education, Geography, History, Statistics and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed About.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 458 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

about.ch performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

about.ch

458 ms

ch.css

233 ms

ch-home.css

235 ms

switzerland.gif

229 ms

new_swissmade_banner.gif

334 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to About.ch and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain About.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.7 kB (31%)

Content Size

106.0 kB

After Optimization

73.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of About.ch main page is 106.0 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 83.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 7.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 68.7 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, About needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.9 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. About.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of About. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

about.ch

about.ch

458 ms

ch.css

ch.css

233 ms

ch-home.css

ch-home.css

235 ms

switzerland.gif

switzerland.gif

229 ms

new_swissmade_banner.gif

new_swissmade_banner.gif

334 ms

administration_big.jpg

administration_big.jpg

457 ms

cantons_big.jpg

cantons_big.jpg

504 ms

culture_big.jpg

culture_big.jpg

394 ms

economy_big.jpg

economy_big.jpg

458 ms

education_big.jpg

education_big.jpg

669 ms

geography_big.jpg

geography_big.jpg

596 ms

history_big.jpg

history_big.jpg

653 ms

statistics_big.jpg

statistics_big.jpg

936 ms

various_big.jpg

various_big.jpg

928 ms

faq_big.jpg

faq_big.jpg

1013 ms

ruler.gif

ruler.gif

833 ms

valid-html401.gif

valid-html401.gif

834 ms

TRAMsoft_logo.gif

TRAMsoft_logo.gif

834 ms

background.gif

background.gif

1092 ms

Accessibility Review

about.ch accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

about.ch 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

about.ch SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise About.ch 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 About.ch main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

about.ch

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of About. 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: