Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

accel.org

Special Needs Education | K-12 Education | With ACCEL

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

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About Website

Visit accel.org now to see the best up-to-date ACCEL content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about accel.org

We serve all people who have special needs to learn, to work, and to live successfully with dignity and independence. With ACCEL's special needs education program, those in need will receive K-12...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Accel.org page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

accel.org performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.571

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

accel.org

127 ms

www.accel.org

1041 ms

all.css

50 ms

magnific_popup.css

9 ms

v4-shims.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Accel.org, 41% (28 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Accel.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 420.5 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

833.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Accel.org main page is 1.3 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 715.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 195.9 kB

  • Original 232.5 kB
  • After minification 230.0 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. 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 195.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 265.5 kB
  • After minification 265.5 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. ACCEL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 222.6 kB

  • Original 715.0 kB
  • After minification 715.0 kB
  • After compression 492.4 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 222.6 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 40.4 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Accel.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (75%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACCEL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

accel.org accessibility score

74

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

accel.org best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

accel.org SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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