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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

americanredcross.com

American Red Cross | Help Those Affected by Disasters

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanredcross.com page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanredcross.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,550 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.redcross.org

162 ms

css

33 ms

base.min.58e441c9b2f393e7e80fe1a97486d5d1.css

94 ms

components.min.92cf46b69e39185d411578e03f6c3b45.css

61 ms

dependencies.min.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Americanredcross.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Disasterbot.redcross.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (557 ms) relates to the external source Redcross.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Americanredcross.com main page is 3.4 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 176.5 kB

  • Original 364.5 kB
  • After minification 343.4 kB
  • After compression 188.0 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 176.5 kB or 48% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 161.6 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. American Red Cross images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 513.4 kB

  • Original 837.9 kB
  • After minification 837.9 kB
  • After compression 324.4 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 513.4 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (27%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Red Cross. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.redcross.org

www.redcross.org

162 ms

css

css

33 ms

base.min.58e441c9b2f393e7e80fe1a97486d5d1.css

base.min.58e441c9b2f393e7e80fe1a97486d5d1.css

94 ms

components.min.92cf46b69e39185d411578e03f6c3b45.css

components.min.92cf46b69e39185d411578e03f6c3b45.css

61 ms

dependencies.min.js

dependencies.min.js

60 ms

new-relic-content-prod.js

new-relic-content-prod.js

85 ms

launch-b67461f3859d.min.js

launch-b67461f3859d.min.js

44 ms

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slick.min.60b63101d7aa0457930f2272e5a9e9b5.css

52 ms

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slick.min.60e1a034845f6908e216b5d239092776.js

52 ms

polyfills.min.js

polyfills.min.js

82 ms

base.min.js

base.min.js

82 ms

components.min.js

components.min.js

87 ms

locationdetection.min.js

locationdetection.min.js

82 ms

token.json

token.json

368 ms

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269 ms

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135 ms

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165 ms

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134 ms

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205 ms

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157 ms

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166 ms

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158 ms

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205 ms

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203 ms

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356 ms

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locdet.min.js

locdet.min.js

292 ms

rco-icon.ttf

rco-icon.ttf

292 ms

config.json

config.json

61 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

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322 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

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309 ms

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357 ms

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355 ms

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73 ms

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24 ms

Volume.DC.integration.js

Volume.DC.integration.js

69 ms

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42 ms

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174 ms

Accessibility Review

americanredcross.com accessibility score

87

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

americanredcross.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

americanredcross.com SEO score

69

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 doesn't use 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 Americanredcross.com 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 Americanredcross.com 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

americanredcross.com

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