Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

now.norton.com

Official Site | Norton™ - Antivirus & Anti-Malware Software

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Now.norton.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

now.norton.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

now.norton.com

1861 ms

jquery.min.js

164 ms

header.js

105 ms

om_code_min.js

22 ms

s_code_min.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Now.norton.com, 33% (35 requests) were made to Now.symassets.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Now.norton.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 883.3 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

690.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Now.norton.com main page is 1.6 MB. 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. Javascripts take 949.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 126.1 kB
  • After minification 109.5 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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 16.6 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 102.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 399.3 kB
  • After minification 385.6 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. Now Norton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 687.2 kB

  • Original 949.0 kB
  • After minification 859.6 kB
  • After compression 261.8 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 687.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 79.8 kB

  • Original 99.5 kB
  • After minification 97.9 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. Now.norton.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (65%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Now Norton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

now.norton.com SEO score

0

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 Now.norton.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 Now.norton.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 description is not detected on the main page of Now Norton. 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: