Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ncans.org

NCANS: North Carolina Association of Nursing Students

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

205 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncans.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncans.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.18

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncans.org

2324 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

71 ms

style.css

159 ms

styles.css

142 ms

dashicons.min.css

238 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Ncans.org, 19% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncans.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 738.4 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

384.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ncans.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 536.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 21.1 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. 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 15.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 235.4 kB
  • After minification 220.1 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. NCANS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 243.5 kB

  • Original 329.7 kB
  • After minification 297.7 kB
  • After compression 86.2 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 243.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 464.3 kB

  • Original 536.9 kB
  • After minification 479.6 kB
  • After compression 72.6 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. Ncans.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 464.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (74%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NCANS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ncans.org accessibility score

98

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

ncans.org best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

ncans.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ncans.org 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 Ncans.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 NCANS. 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: