Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

users.rcn.com

Internet, Mobile, TV & Streaming Services | Astound Broadband | Meet Our Companies: RCN, Grande, Wave, & enTouch

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

users.rcn.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Users.rcn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

users.rcn.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.431

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

users.rcn.com

20 ms

www.rcn.com

115 ms

www.astound.com

432 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

35 ms

popper.min.js

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 196 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Users.rcn.com, 41% (81 requests) were made to Astound.com and 18% (36 requests) were made to S.amazon-adsystem.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Astound.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 526.4 kB (27%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Users.rcn.com main page is 2.0 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 430.5 kB

  • Original 501.2 kB
  • After minification 463.8 kB
  • After compression 70.8 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 430.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 94.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. Users RCN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 378.2 kB
  • After minification 378.2 kB
  • After compression 376.2 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 115 (68%)

Requests Now

168

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 168 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Users RCN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

users.rcn.com accessibility score

93

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

Best Practices

users.rcn.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

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