Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

aldi.us

ALDI Grocery Stores - Quality Food. Everyday Low Prices.

Page Load Speed

17.2 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

8.9 sec

aldi.us screenshot

About Website

Visit aldi.us now to see the best up-to-date ALDI content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about aldi.us

Shop low prices on award-winning products at ALDI. View our weekly specials, find recipes and shop quality brands in store or online. Learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aldi.us page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 16.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aldi.us performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,040 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aldi.us

252 ms

www.aldi.us

166 ms

www.aldi.us

349 ms

compress-layout-dd269f248768e4072b0727c5e0a7f2c4.1503913309.css

178 ms

compress-ba185a2264-1d35abcfd7f7bac2ae14eaa19cea9ced.1503913345.css

480 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Aldi.us, 3% (1 request) were made to Tracking.aldi-international.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Aldi.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Aldi.us main page is 4.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 66.0 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 71.7 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 66.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. ALDI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 28.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 404.5 kB

  • Original 488.1 kB
  • After minification 485.7 kB
  • After compression 83.6 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. Aldi.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 404.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALDI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aldi.us accessibility score

77

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

High

[role] values are not valid

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

aldi.us best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

aldi.us 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 Aldi.us 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 Aldi.us 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 ALDI. 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: