Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

vabf.org

Connect with biological farmers in Virginia! - Virginia Association for Biological Farming

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

vabf.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vabf.org page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vabf.org performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.475

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vabf.org

146 ms

vabf.org

888 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

263 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

278 ms

dashicons.min.css

321 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Vabf.org, 75% (65 requests) were made to Secureservercdn.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Secureservercdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 633.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Vabf.org main page is 7.1 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 201.9 kB

  • Original 241.3 kB
  • After minification 237.0 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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 201.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 361.9 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 6.0 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. Vabf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 268.4 kB
  • After minification 268.4 kB
  • After compression 219.1 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 49.2 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 240.5 kB
  • After minification 240.5 kB
  • After compression 220.2 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. Vabf.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (55%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vabf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vabf.org accessibility score

80

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

vabf.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vabf.org SEO score

85

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vabf.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 Vabf.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 data is detected on the main page of Vabf. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: