Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

spok.com

Home - Spok Inc.

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

232 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spok.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spok.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spok.com

41 ms

www.spok.com

910 ms

ccm.base.css

16 ms

jquery.js

563 ms

ccm.base.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Spok.com, 6% (7 requests) were made to Static.olark.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to 49-events.olark.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Spok.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 950.2 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Spok.com main page is 2.5 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 76.6 kB

  • Original 96.0 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 76.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 99.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Spok images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 661.7 kB

  • Original 857.8 kB
  • After minification 677.0 kB
  • After compression 196.2 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 661.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 112.8 kB

  • Original 130.7 kB
  • After minification 94.8 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. Spok.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (48%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spok. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

spok.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

spok.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

spok.com SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Spok.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 Spok.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 description is not detected on the main page of Spok. 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: