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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

pdf.me

Pdftools | Developer SDKs & solutions for PDF and PDF/A | Components and solutions for PDF and PDF/A | PDF Tools

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to pdf.me homepage info - get ready to check PDF best content right away, or after learning these important things about pdf.me

Pdftools offers a suite of SDKs and developer components for PDF and PDF/A document workflows.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pdf.me page load time and found that the first response time was 318 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pdf.me performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pdf.me

318 ms

353 ms

www.pdf-tools.com

259 ms

css

61 ms

webpack-runtime-1f721596b2785356f178.js

725 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pdf.me, 77% (36 requests) were made to Pdf-tools.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Pdf-tools.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 690.5 kB (69%)

Content Size

995.3 kB

After Optimization

304.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Pdf.me main page is 995.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 759.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 171.6 kB

  • Original 211.8 kB
  • After minification 211.7 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 171.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 518.7 kB

  • Original 759.9 kB
  • After minification 241.2 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, PDF needs image optimization as it can save up to 518.7 kB or 68% 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 133 B

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (20%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PDF. 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

pdf.me

pdf.me

318 ms

353 ms

www.pdf-tools.com

www.pdf-tools.com

259 ms

css

css

61 ms

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webpack-runtime-1f721596b2785356f178.js

725 ms

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1091 ms

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1136 ms

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1443 ms

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1355 ms

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736 ms

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1006 ms

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1225 ms

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984 ms

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1195 ms

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1203 ms

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1194 ms

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1286 ms

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1284 ms

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1285 ms

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1351 ms

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1353 ms

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1351 ms

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1352 ms

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1351 ms

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1351 ms

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1457 ms

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1452 ms

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1453 ms

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1455 ms

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1456 ms

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1455 ms

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1488 ms

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1486 ms

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1486 ms

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1487 ms

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1486 ms

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1583 ms

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999 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

212 ms

loader.js

loader.js

229 ms

script.js

script.js

174 ms

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7 ms

wcm

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141 ms

landing

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140 ms

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41 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

pdf.me accessibility score

82

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

pdf.me best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pdf.me SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Pdf.me 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 Pdf.me 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

pdf.me

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of PDF. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: