Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

veteransandfamilies.org

Purple Star Veterans and Families - Strengthening The Transition Safety Net For Veterans

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

693 ms

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About Website

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Purple Star Veterans and Families (PSVF) is a non-profit 501c-3 Community Service Organization. We are dedicated to strengthening the transition safety net for

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Key Findings

We analyzed Veteransandfamilies.org page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

veteransandfamilies.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

veteransandfamilies.org

52 ms

purplestarveterans.org

2603 ms

analytics.js

28 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

205 ms

css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Veteransandfamilies.org, 70% (43 requests) were made to Purplestarveterans.org and 16% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Purplestarveterans.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 809.6 kB (16%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Veteransandfamilies.org main page is 5.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 78 B

  • Original 259 B
  • After minification 259 B
  • After compression 181 B

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 B or 30% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Veterans And Families images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 303.6 kB

  • Original 425.8 kB
  • After minification 373.1 kB
  • After compression 122.2 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 303.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 487.0 kB

  • Original 547.2 kB
  • After minification 492.9 kB
  • After compression 60.2 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. Veteransandfamilies.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 487.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (46%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Veterans And Families. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

veteransandfamilies.org accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

veteransandfamilies.org 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

SEO Factors

veteransandfamilies.org SEO score

77

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Veteransandfamilies.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 Veteransandfamilies.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Veterans And Families. 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: