Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

towerswatson.com

WTW: Perspective that moves you | Risk, Broking, HR, Benefits - WTW

Page Load Speed

56.7 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

39.3 sec

Page Rendered

15.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Towerswatson.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 54.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

towerswatson.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.16

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.towerswatson.com

2152 ms

style-min.css

1719 ms

responsive.css

1642 ms

modernizr.js

600 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

973 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Towerswatson.com, 23% (26 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) relates to the external source Pbs.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (35%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Towerswatson.com main page is 3.6 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. 75% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 117.3 kB

  • Original 135.9 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 35.2 kB, which is 26% 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 117.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 87.1 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Towerswatson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 690.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 948.3 kB
  • After compression 319.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 690.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 341.5 kB

  • Original 417.3 kB
  • After minification 397.3 kB
  • After compression 75.8 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. Towerswatson.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 341.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (47%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Towerswatson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

towerswatson.com accessibility score

99

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

Best Practices

towerswatson.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

towerswatson.com SEO score

92

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

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