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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ibm.com

IBM - United States

Page Load Speed

650 ms in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

495 ms

Page Rendered

77 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ibm.com page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 572 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ibm.com performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.165

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value49.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

us-en

78 ms

ibm-common.js

71 ms

loader.js

91 ms

clientlib-idlStylesCarbon.lc-ca096cab32fa5d441ac4c91161bc1313-lc.min.css

72 ms

clientlib-idlStyles.lc-dcc3d02cac5e123204ec17729e5e2585-lc.min.css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Ibm.com, 78% (42 requests) were made to 1.www.s81c.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Hybrid-cloud-widgets-production.s3.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (291 ms) relates to the external source 1.www.s81c.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.4 MB (84%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

657.6 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ibm.com main page is 4.0 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 89.0 kB

  • Original 101.1 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.8 kB, which is 13% 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 89.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 3.1 MB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB
  • After compression 638.7 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 3.1 MB or 83% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 184.1 kB

  • Original 190.9 kB
  • After minification 185.8 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. Ibm.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184.1 kB or 96% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (96%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IBM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ibm.com accessibility score

87

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

ibm.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ibm.com SEO score

86

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

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 Ibm.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 Ibm.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 IBM. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: