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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

pricecharts.com

Barchart.com | Commodity, Stock, and Currency Quotes, Charts, News & Analysis

Page Load Speed

808 ms in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

428 ms

Page Rendered

125 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pricecharts.com page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 553 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

pricecharts.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value47.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pricecharts.com

255 ms

logo.htm

26 ms

navbar1.asp

94 ms

sidemenu1.htm

59 ms

home1.asp

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Pricecharts.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (255 ms) belongs to the original domain Pricecharts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 kB (21%)

Content Size

13.2 kB

After Optimization

10.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Pricecharts.com main page is 13.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 912 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 596 B

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 912 B or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 9.2 kB
  • After minification 9.2 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. Price Charts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 1.8 kB
  • After compression 556 B

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 1.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Price Charts. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pricecharts.com accessibility score

84

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.

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

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

pricecharts.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pricecharts.com SEO score

82

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pricecharts.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Pricecharts.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Price Charts. 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: