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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

americanfunds.com

Home Page | Capital Group

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

203 ms

americanfunds.com screenshot

About Website

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Since 1931, we've helped millions of investors worldwide pursue their real-life goals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanfunds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 1.3 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

americanfunds.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,790 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.capitalgroup.com

97 ms

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145 ms

ls-start

33 ms

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158 ms

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152 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Americanfunds.com, 16% (6 requests) were made to Capitalgroup.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to A40.usablenet.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (317 ms) relates to the external source Static.capitalgroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 962.6 kB (48%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americanfunds.com main page is 2.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 916.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 72.6 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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 62.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 142.9 kB

  • Original 896.4 kB
  • After minification 753.5 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, Americanfunds needs image optimization as it can save up to 142.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 638.3 kB

  • Original 916.0 kB
  • After minification 915.2 kB
  • After compression 277.7 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 638.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 118.6 kB

  • Original 126.3 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Americanfunds.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.6 kB or 94% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (75%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Americanfunds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.capitalgroup.com

www.capitalgroup.com

97 ms

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df4181ac6a90449d089e0c5fcea19c38f97d0011b1d4ed

145 ms

ls-start

ls-start

33 ms

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158 ms

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152 ms

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entry.css

135 ms

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entry.css

258 ms

legacy.css

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143 ms

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259 ms

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39 ms

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154 ms

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42 ms

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156 ms

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site.lc-2233049ba863e9328f8a07614caee366-lc.min.js

267 ms

entry.css

entry.css

256 ms

legacy.css

legacy.css

269 ms

entry.js

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267 ms

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267 ms

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271 ms

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268 ms

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39 ms

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35 ms

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191 ms

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311 ms

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186 ms

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187 ms

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Mortar_Image_Man_Lobby.png

317 ms

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44 ms

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240 ms

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72 ms

Accessibility Review

americanfunds.com accessibility score

80

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

americanfunds.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

americanfunds.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Americanfunds.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 Americanfunds.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

americanfunds.com

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