Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

smsgator.com

SMSgator - Nigeria's leading bulk SMS marketing solutions provider

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

292 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

smsgator.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smsgator.com page load time and found that the first response time was 292 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smsgator.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.341

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smsgator.com

292 ms

style.css

140 ms

style.css

149 ms

logo.png

268 ms

whyChooseUs01.png

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Smsgator.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Themes.googleusercontent.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) belongs to the original domain Smsgator.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 680.5 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

602.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Smsgator.com main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 546.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.1 kB, which is 22% 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 25.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 546.4 kB
  • After minification 466.6 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, SMSgator needs image optimization as it can save up to 79.7 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 156.2 kB

  • Original 225.1 kB
  • After minification 198.3 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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 156.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 419.3 kB

  • Original 479.2 kB
  • After minification 410.3 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Smsgator.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 419.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (35%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SMSgator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smsgator.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

smsgator.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

smsgator.com SEO score

81

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Smsgator.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 Smsgator.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 SMSgator. 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: