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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

focusfwd.com

Research, Coding and Transcription Services | Focus Forward

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

369 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

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About Website

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Focus Forward offers qualitative recruitment, quantitative research, product tests, transcription, and translation services. Contact 215-367-4000.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Focusfwd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 369 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

focusfwd.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

focusfwd.com

369 ms

styles.css

165 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

166 ms

stmenu.js

221 ms

stm31.js

314 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Focusfwd.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (646 ms) belongs to the original domain Focusfwd.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.5 kB (30%)

Content Size

454.6 kB

After Optimization

319.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Focusfwd.com main page is 454.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 291.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 58.9 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 9.4 kB, which is 16% 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 51.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 291.6 kB
  • After minification 273.0 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. Focus Fwd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 55.9 kB

  • Original 93.4 kB
  • After minification 85.0 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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 55.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Focusfwd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (38%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Focus Fwd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

focusfwd.com

focusfwd.com

369 ms

styles.css

styles.css

165 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

166 ms

stmenu.js

stmenu.js

221 ms

stm31.js

stm31.js

314 ms

rss-style.css

rss-style.css

120 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

logo2.jpg

logo2.jpg

165 ms

navIcon_01.jpg

navIcon_01.jpg

114 ms

navIcon_02.jpg

navIcon_02.jpg

156 ms

spacer.png

spacer.png

211 ms

transcription.jpg

transcription.jpg

320 ms

online.jpg

online.jpg

329 ms

ktlamoneysmart.jpg

ktlamoneysmart.jpg

319 ms

werock.png

werock.png

494 ms

currentMember.jpg

currentMember.jpg

304 ms

pics2.jpg

pics2.jpg

522 ms

signUpNow.jpg

signUpNow.jpg

413 ms

map2.jpg

map2.jpg

483 ms

icons_01.jpg

icons_01.jpg

429 ms

icons_03.jpg

icons_03.jpg

439 ms

icons_05.jpg

icons_05.jpg

523 ms

groups.jpg

groups.jpg

646 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

stcode.js

stcode.js

446 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

59 ms

bkgds1020home.jpg

bkgds1020home.jpg

439 ms

bkgd3lines.jpg

bkgd3lines.jpg

113 ms

bkgd2lines.jpg

bkgd2lines.jpg

113 ms

bkgd4lines.jpg

bkgd4lines.jpg

113 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

5 ms

Accessibility Review

focusfwd.com accessibility score

87

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

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

Best Practices

focusfwd.com best practices score

69

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

focusfwd.com SEO score

93

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 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 Focusfwd.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 Focusfwd.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

focusfwd.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Focus Fwd. 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: