Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

akamai.com

Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) | Akamai

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Akamai.com page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

akamai.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.akamai.com

187 ms

gtm.js

266 ms

aksb.min.js

81 ms

akamai-bot-manager.jpg

54 ms

akamai-rsa-conference-2016-home-page.jpeg

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Akamai.com, 10% (5 requests) were made to and 8% (4 requests) were made to Cdnssl.clicktale.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (475 ms) relates to the external source D26x5ounzdjojj.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 984.6 kB (46%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Akamai.com main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 743.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 271.8 kB

  • Original 420.9 kB
  • After minification 420.6 kB
  • After compression 149.1 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 271.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 743.2 kB
  • After minification 740.6 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. Akamai images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 515.2 kB

  • Original 729.0 kB
  • After minification 728.2 kB
  • After compression 213.8 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 515.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 195.0 kB

  • Original 234.3 kB
  • After minification 233.9 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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. Akamai.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (63%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Akamai. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

akamai.com accessibility score

98

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.

SEO Factors

akamai.com SEO score

81

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Akamai.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 Akamai.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 data is detected on the main page of Akamai. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: