Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

acfas.org

ACFAS - American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons

Page Load Speed

866 ms in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

668 ms

Page Rendered

177 ms

acfas.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to acfas.org homepage info - get ready to check ACFAS best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about acfas.org

The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) is a professional society of more than 7,800 foot and ankle surgeons. Founded in 1942, ACFAS seeks to inspire excellence in foot and ankle care ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acfas.org page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 845 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

acfas.org performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.289

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

acfas.org

21 ms

www.acfas.org

139 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

37 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

66 ms

css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Acfas.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (390 ms) belongs to the original domain Acfas.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 316.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

831.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Acfas.org main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 806.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 72.7 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 58.8 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 29.5 kB, which is 33% 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 72.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 66.7 kB

  • Original 806.1 kB
  • After minification 739.4 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. ACFAS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 148.2 kB

  • Original 216.3 kB
  • After minification 208.8 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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 148.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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. Acfas.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACFAS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

acfas.org accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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

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

acfas.org 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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

acfas.org SEO score

67

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

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Acfas.org 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 Acfas.org 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 ACFAS. 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: