Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

proz.com

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Page Load Speed

47 sec in total

First Response

355 ms

Resources Loaded

39 sec

Page Rendered

7.7 sec

proz.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Proz.com page load time and found that the first response time was 355 ms and then it took 46.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

proz.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,830 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.156

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

proz.com

355 ms

www.proz.com

1425 ms

bootstrap_minimal.css

897 ms

font-awesome.min.css

2240 ms

bootstrap.min.css

2822 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Proz.com, 18% (17 requests) were made to Cdn4.proz.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Cdn3.proz.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

846.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Proz.com main page is 2.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 999.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 105.3 kB

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 114.9 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 13.8 kB, which is 11% 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 105.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 399.6 kB
  • After minification 375.0 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. ProZ images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 642.2 kB

  • Original 999.8 kB
  • After minification 999.7 kB
  • After compression 357.6 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 642.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 541.0 kB

  • Original 631.2 kB
  • After minification 539.5 kB
  • After compression 90.3 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. Proz.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 541.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (77%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ProZ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

proz.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

proz.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

proz.com 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 Proz.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 Proz.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 ProZ. 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: