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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

costgem.com

Cost Gem - Architect Timesheet & Practice Management Software

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

498 ms

Page Rendered

506 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Costgem.com page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

costgem.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

costgem.com

38 ms

costgem.com

55 ms

gtm.js

97 ms

bootstrap.min.css

53 ms

reset.css

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Costgem.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (271 ms) relates to the external source Rec.smartlook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

989.0 kB

After Optimization

819.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Costgem.com main page is 989.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 766.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 5.6 kB, which is 32% 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 13.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 153.2 kB

  • Original 766.0 kB
  • After minification 612.7 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. Obviously, Cost Gem needs image optimization as it can save up to 153.2 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 200.2 kB
  • After minification 200.2 kB
  • After compression 198.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Costgem.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cost Gem. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

costgem.com

costgem.com

38 ms

costgem.com

costgem.com

55 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

97 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

53 ms

reset.css

reset.css

7 ms

style.css

style.css

25 ms

js

js

191 ms

api.js

api.js

79 ms

element.js

element.js

94 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

45 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

77 ms

recorder.js

recorder.js

271 ms

logo.png

logo.png

13 ms

splash.jpg

splash.jpg

21 ms

pc.png

pc.png

9 ms

jobs.png

jobs.png

21 ms

dollar.png

dollar.png

45 ms

gear.png

gear.png

47 ms

splash-relax.jpg

splash-relax.jpg

86 ms

check-icon.png

check-icon.png

46 ms

desktop-tablet-mobile.jpg

desktop-tablet-mobile.jpg

87 ms

clock.png

clock.png

83 ms

network.png

network.png

81 ms

dollar-down.png

dollar-down.png

81 ms

cloud.png

cloud.png

82 ms

myob.jpg

myob.jpg

86 ms

xero.jpg

xero.jpg

85 ms

quick.jpg

quick.jpg

110 ms

reck.jpg

reck.jpg

83 ms

footer-map-icon.png

footer-map-icon.png

86 ms

footer-email-icon.png

footer-email-icon.png

111 ms

footer-phone-icon.png

footer-phone-icon.png

112 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

110 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

112 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

114 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

115 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

114 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

110 ms

js

js

155 ms

Accessibility Review

costgem.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

costgem.com best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

costgem.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Costgem.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 Costgem.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

costgem.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cost Gem. 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: