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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 72

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

wardinc.com

Ward Benchmarking | Trusted Provider of Talent, Rewards, and Performance Data & Consulting to Financial Services Firms

Page Load Speed

666 ms in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

434 ms

Page Rendered

125 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wardinc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 559 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wardinc.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wardinc.com

107 ms

www.wardinc.com

132 ms

wardgroup.css

50 ms

wardgroup_sidenav.css

52 ms

dropdowntab.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Wardinc.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (132 ms) belongs to the original domain Wardinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.0 kB (54%)

Content Size

224.8 kB

After Optimization

102.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wardinc.com main page is 224.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 95.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 17.4 kB
  • After minification 13.7 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 3.7 kB, which is 21% 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 13.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 37.0 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 54.0 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, Ward Inc needs image optimization as it can save up to 37.0 kB or 41% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 54.5 kB

  • Original 95.6 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 41.0 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 54.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Wardinc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (44%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ward Inc. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wardinc.com

wardinc.com

107 ms

www.wardinc.com

www.wardinc.com

132 ms

wardgroup.css

wardgroup.css

50 ms

wardgroup_sidenav.css

wardgroup_sidenav.css

52 ms

dropdowntab.css

dropdowntab.css

53 ms

dropdowntab.js

dropdowntab.js

54 ms

smooth.pack.js

smooth.pack.js

54 ms

showhide.js

showhide.js

52 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

100 ms

lytebox.js

lytebox.js

128 ms

lytebox.css

lytebox.css

77 ms

ga.js

ga.js

5 ms

bg_main_new.jpg

bg_main_new.jpg

43 ms

Aon_Logo_Tagline_RGB_Red.png

Aon_Logo_Tagline_RGB_Red.png

43 ms

cart.gif

cart.gif

44 ms

icon_arrows.png

icon_arrows.png

77 ms

image2_homepage.jpg

image2_homepage.jpg

53 ms

linkedin-icon.png

linkedin-icon.png

43 ms

bottom.gif

bottom.gif

53 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

9 ms

Accessibility Review

wardinc.com accessibility score

73

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

wardinc.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

wardinc.com SEO score

72

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wardinc.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 Wardinc.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

wardinc.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ward Inc. 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: