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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

americancouncils.org

American Councils | American Councils

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

318 ms

Page Rendered

994 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americancouncils.org page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americancouncils.org performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,300 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.432

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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45 ms

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35 ms

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Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Americancouncils.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (83 ms) belongs to the original domain Americancouncils.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 421.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

7.2 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americancouncils.org main page is 7.2 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. Images take 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 14.5 kB, which is 20% 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 60.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 325.5 kB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. American Councils images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 108.8 kB
  • After minification 108.8 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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 20.9 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Americancouncils.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.8 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (28%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Councils. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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45 ms

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35 ms

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Accessibility Review

americancouncils.org accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

americancouncils.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

americancouncils.org SEO score

76

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Americancouncils.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 Americancouncils.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

americancouncils.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of American Councils. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: