Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com

Retirement Plan Investors – American Funds | Capital Group

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

417 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

448 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 417 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

americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,940 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com

417 ms

38b4b34c8d49447dd566a75fcea19c38f97d0011b1d4ed

233 ms

clientlib-dependencies.min.ACSHASHec297886ccf15c845edd5ab1b823185f.js

112 ms

clientlib-base.min.ACSHASH94888d1fc80b6457512bc9a601e4a443.css

79 ms

entry.css

341 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Static.cloud.coveo.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (527 ms) belongs to the original domain Americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 MB (65%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com main page is 5.4 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. 75% 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. CSS take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 233.9 kB

  • Original 259.2 kB
  • After minification 228.2 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 31.0 kB, which is 12% 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 233.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 101.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. American Funds Retirement Retire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 544.8 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 1.1 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 170.6 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. Americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 MB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (60%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Funds Retirement Retire. 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.

Accessibility Review

americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com accessibility score

76

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

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

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.

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

americanfundsretirement.retire.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

americanfundsretirement.retire.americanfunds.com SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Americanfundsretirement.retire.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 Americanfundsretirement.retire.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

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