Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

verizon.com

Verizon: Wireless, Internet, TV and Phone Services | Official Site

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

882 ms

Page Rendered

819 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Verizon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

verizon.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

verizon.com

9 ms

www.verizon.com

25 ms

launch-72284e178e44.min.js

34 ms

components-base.min.css

9 ms

core.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Verizon.com, 14% (3 requests) were made to Scache1.vzw.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Scache2.vzw.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (420 ms) relates to the external source Scache2.vzw.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.4 kB (40%)

Content Size

698.8 kB

After Optimization

417.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Verizon.com main page is 698.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 487.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 179.9 kB

  • Original 211.6 kB
  • After minification 183.1 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 28.5 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 179.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 101.6 kB

  • Original 487.2 kB
  • After minification 487.2 kB
  • After compression 385.7 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 101.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (79%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Verizon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

verizon.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

verizon.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

verizon.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

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 doesn't use 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 Verizon.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 Verizon.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: