Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

mail.yahoo.com

Yahoo Mail

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

58 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

79 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mail.yahoo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 58 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mail.yahoo.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mail.yahoo.com

58 ms

mail.yahoo.com

118 ms

login.yahoo.com

162 ms

yahoo_en-US_f_p_bestfit_2x.png

23 ms

client.php

375 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Mail.yahoo.com, 38% (3 requests) were made to S.yimg.com and 13% (1 request) were made to Login.yahoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (375 ms) relates to the external source Fc.yahoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 504.9 kB (69%)

Content Size

728.3 kB

After Optimization

223.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Mail.yahoo.com main page is 728.3 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 405.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 78.2 kB

  • Original 107.2 kB
  • After minification 101.3 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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 78.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 9.4 kB
  • After minification 9.4 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. Mail Yahoo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 276.2 kB

  • Original 405.7 kB
  • After minification 405.7 kB
  • After compression 129.5 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 276.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 150.5 kB

  • Original 206.0 kB
  • After minification 205.9 kB
  • After compression 55.5 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. Mail.yahoo.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mail Yahoo. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

mail.yahoo.com accessibility score

82

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.

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

mail.yahoo.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mail.yahoo.com SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mail.yahoo.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 Mail.yahoo.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 Mail Yahoo. 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: