Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

rics.com

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Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

6.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 12.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rics.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,950 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rics.com

208 ms

www.refinitiv.com

116 ms

en

34 ms

main.css

61 ms

jquery.min.js

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rics.com, 43% (41 requests) were made to Refinitiv.com and 19% (18 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Solutions.invocacdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 372.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

651.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Rics.com main page is 1.0 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. Images take 545.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 312.7 kB

  • Original 364.8 kB
  • After minification 290.6 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 74.2 kB, which is 20% 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 312.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 51.5 kB

  • Original 545.1 kB
  • After minification 493.5 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. Rics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 72.9 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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 8.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 41.6 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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. Rics.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (63%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rics.com accessibility score

90

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

rics.com 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

rics.com SEO score

93

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

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