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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

thereferencegroup.com

Data Axle Reference Solutions

Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

451 ms

Resources Loaded

10.3 sec

Page Rendered

206 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thereferencegroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 451 ms and then it took 10.5 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

thereferencegroup.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thereferencegroup.com

451 ms

font-awesome.min.css

41 ms

Global.min.css

636 ms

Global.min.js

9569 ms

SmoothForm.min.css

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Thereferencegroup.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thereferencegroup.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

237.9 kB

After Optimization

136.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thereferencegroup.com main page is 237.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 89.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 20.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 77.8 kB
  • After minification 71.4 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. The Reference Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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

-81%

Potential reduce by 72.9 kB

  • Original 89.8 kB
  • After minification 88.9 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Thereferencegroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (31%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Reference Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thereferencegroup.com

thereferencegroup.com

451 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

41 ms

Global.min.css

Global.min.css

636 ms

Global.min.js

Global.min.js

9569 ms

SmoothForm.min.css

SmoothForm.min.css

175 ms

SmoothForm.min.js

SmoothForm.min.js

118 ms

originCorner.min.js

originCorner.min.js

78 ms

ai.0.js

ai.0.js

79 ms

bg_Middle.png

bg_Middle.png

88 ms

Chart_SampleImg_LatestNews.png

Chart_SampleImg_LatestNews.png

203 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

70 ms

Group_Logo_w403h30.png

Group_Logo_w403h30.png

78 ms

LogOnBtnSprite_W104H35.png

LogOnBtnSprite_W104H35.png

78 ms

MainNavBackMid_w8h27_1.png

MainNavBackMid_w8h27_1.png

106 ms

MainNavBackLeft_w8h27_1.png

MainNavBackLeft_w8h27_1.png

104 ms

MainNavBackRight_w8h27_1.png

MainNavBackRight_w8h27_1.png

141 ms

DatabaseTab_w72h26.png

DatabaseTab_w72h26.png

116 ms

DBIcon_USBusiness.png

DBIcon_USBusiness.png

132 ms

DBIcon_UsHistoricalBusiness.png

DBIcon_UsHistoricalBusiness.png

139 ms

DBIcon_CaBusiness.png

DBIcon_CaBusiness.png

148 ms

DBIcon_UsJobs.png

DBIcon_UsJobs.png

187 ms

DBIcon_IntlBusiness.png

DBIcon_IntlBusiness.png

184 ms

DBIcon_UsNewBusiness.png

DBIcon_UsNewBusiness.png

195 ms

DBIcon_UsHealthcare.png

DBIcon_UsHealthcare.png

201 ms

DBIcon_UsResidential.png

DBIcon_UsResidential.png

209 ms

DBIcon_CaResidential.png

DBIcon_CaResidential.png

236 ms

DBIcon_UsNewMovers.png

DBIcon_UsNewMovers.png

246 ms

DBIcon_UsSecure.png

DBIcon_UsSecure.png

248 ms

HPImg_w643xh226.jpg

HPImg_w643xh226.jpg

352 ms

arrow_down.png

arrow_down.png

262 ms

arrow_btn.png

arrow_btn.png

268 ms

Footer_middle.png

Footer_middle.png

298 ms

Footer_left.png

Footer_left.png

316 ms

Footer_right.png

Footer_right.png

320 ms

ga.js

ga.js

18 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

thereferencegroup.com accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

thereferencegroup.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thereferencegroup.com SEO score

62

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Thereferencegroup.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 Thereferencegroup.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

thereferencegroup.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Reference Group. 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: