Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

instana.com

IBM Instana Observability

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

777 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Instana.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

instana.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

instana.com

112 ms

www.instana.com

172 ms

megamenu-v5974dd806386488352fbf3d9b3280fc012a9c5f1.css

26 ms

dashicons-v8650c63f4e9506bf0d0207ecd6e765f14b653d60.css

42 ms

home-redesign-style.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Instana.com, 3% (1 request) were made to Dpm.demdex.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (172 ms) belongs to the original domain Instana.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.3 kB (31%)

Content Size

603.5 kB

After Optimization

414.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Instana.com main page is 603.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 305.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 189.2 kB

  • Original 214.0 kB
  • After minification 185.8 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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 28.2 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 189.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 305.1 kB
  • After minification 305.1 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. Instana images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 80.5 kB
  • After minification 80.5 kB
  • After compression 80.4 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. Instana.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Instana. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

instana.com accessibility score

91

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

instana.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

instana.com SEO score

91

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

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 Instana.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 Instana.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 Instana. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: