Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

welcomelink.com

WelcomeLink | Easy, Effective, Affordable Resident Communications

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

441 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Welcome Link content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about welcomelink.com

WelcomeLink offers HOA Property Managers an easy-to-use online solution that delivers important information to residents in both printed and digital formats. Products include Payment Notices, Resident...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welcomelink.com page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 1.6 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

welcomelink.com performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welcomelink.com

233 ms

site_global.css

148 ms

master_a-master-copy.css

139 ms

index.css

176 ms

video-js.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Welcomelink.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to and 5% (2 requests) were made to Webfonts.creativecloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (472 ms) belongs to the original domain Welcomelink.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 402.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Welcomelink.com main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 2.9 kB, which is 12% 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 18.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 236.4 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Welcome Link needs image optimization as it can save up to 236.4 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

  • Original 170.6 kB
  • After minification 167.0 kB
  • After compression 55.6 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 115.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 38.3 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. Welcomelink.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (43%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welcome Link. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

welcomelink.com accessibility score

61

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

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

Best Practices

welcomelink.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

welcomelink.com SEO score

91

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Welcomelink.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 Welcomelink.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 Welcome Link. 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: