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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

compuserve.com

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Page Load Speed

264 ms in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

118 ms

Page Rendered

134 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Compuserve.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 252 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

compuserve.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

compuserve.com

12 ms

33 ms

style.css

7 ms

homepage.js

15 ms

adsWrapper.js

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Compuserve.com, 87% (27 requests) were made to O.aolcdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (33 ms) relates to the external source Webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 248.8 kB (58%)

Content Size

428.7 kB

After Optimization

179.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Compuserve.com main page is 428.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 201.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 6.1 kB, which is 24% 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 19.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 117.4 kB
  • After minification 105.4 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. Compu Serve images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 141.3 kB

  • Original 201.4 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 60.1 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 141.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. Compuserve.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Compu Serve. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

compuserve.com

compuserve.com

12 ms

33 ms

style.css

style.css

7 ms

homepage.js

homepage.js

15 ms

adsWrapper.js

adsWrapper.js

12 ms

whatsnew.js

whatsnew.js

13 ms

adsEnd.js

adsEnd.js

15 ms

weathertypes.css

weathertypes.css

10 ms

25 ms

CS_header_mid.jpg

CS_header_mid.jpg

6 ms

CS_header.jpg

CS_header.jpg

6 ms

CS_header_right.jpg

CS_header_right.jpg

19 ms

CS_button_search.gif

CS_button_search.gif

19 ms

CS_arrow_right.gif

CS_arrow_right.gif

19 ms

CS_shadow.gif

CS_shadow.gif

19 ms

CS_gradient.gif

CS_gradient.gif

20 ms

top_0229_leapday.jpg

top_0229_leapday.jpg

20 ms

CS_headerbar.gif

CS_headerbar.gif

21 ms

slot2_0229_shesjealous4.jpg

slot2_0229_shesjealous4.jpg

21 ms

CS_button_blue.gif

CS_button_blue.gif

19 ms

banner_cscom2.jpg

banner_cscom2.jpg

21 ms

spotlight.jpg

spotlight.jpg

22 ms

high_0229_langeline3.jpg

high_0229_langeline3.jpg

21 ms

CS_wow.gif

CS_wow.gif

21 ms

CS_button_mail.gif

CS_button_mail.gif

22 ms

but_whatsnew.gif

but_whatsnew.gif

23 ms

np_gradient.gif

np_gradient.gif

23 ms

np_logo.gif

np_logo.gif

23 ms

np_close.gif

np_close.gif

22 ms

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22 ms

rd

rd

5 ms

Accessibility Review

compuserve.com accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

compuserve.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

compuserve.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Compuserve.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 Compuserve.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

compuserve.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Compu Serve. 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: