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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

richardsed.com

Richards Education Service, Inc. - online insurance continuing education

Page Load Speed

871 ms in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

619 ms

Page Rendered

103 ms

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About Website

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Richards Education Service, Inc. provides online professional self-study insurance continuing education courses in 44 states since 1991. Insurance continuing education states include; California, Idah...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Richardsed.com page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 722 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

richardsed.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

richardsed.com

149 ms

www.richardsed.com

258 ms

global.css

53 ms

richardsedlogo.gif

109 ms

800number.gif

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Richardsed.com, 22% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (258 ms) belongs to the original domain Richardsed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.1 kB (40%)

Content Size

35.3 kB

After Optimization

21.2 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Richardsed.com main page is 35.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 17.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 13.4 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 2.5 kB, which is 19% 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 9.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-89%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 525 B

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. Richardsed.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Richards Ed. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

richardsed.com

richardsed.com

149 ms

www.richardsed.com

www.richardsed.com

258 ms

global.css

global.css

53 ms

richardsedlogo.gif

richardsedlogo.gif

109 ms

800number.gif

800number.gif

162 ms

cart.gif

cart.gif

163 ms

usamap.gif

usamap.gif

213 ms

ga.js

ga.js

22 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

Accessibility Review

richardsed.com accessibility score

64

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

richardsed.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

richardsed.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Richardsed.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 Richardsed.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

richardsed.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Richards Ed. 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: