Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

simbrief.com

SimBrief.com - Virtual Flight Planning Solutions

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

476 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simbrief.com page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

simbrief.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

simbrief.com

188 ms

369 ms

jquery-ui.css

56 ms

reset.css

89 ms

style_02SEP14.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Simbrief.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (534 ms) belongs to the original domain Simbrief.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 644.1 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Simbrief.com main page is 1.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 28.8 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 4.5 kB, which is 16% 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 21.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 126.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 933.2 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, Sim Brief needs image optimization as it can save up to 126.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 402.8 kB

  • Original 619.7 kB
  • After minification 558.9 kB
  • After compression 216.9 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 402.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 93.5 kB

  • Original 112.4 kB
  • After minification 94.6 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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. Simbrief.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (55%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sim Brief. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

simbrief.com accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

simbrief.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

SEO Factors

simbrief.com SEO score

62

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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