Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

aavfd.org

Alabama Association of Volunteer Fire Departments (AAVFD)

Page Load Speed

953 ms in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

604 ms

Page Rendered

204 ms

About Website

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

Serving as the voice for Alabama's volunteer fire departments while improving the safety of the firefighter and quality of protection provided to communities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aavfd.org page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 808 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aavfd.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aavfd.org

145 ms

codea.js

46 ms

count.js

224 ms

2010_AAVFD_Logo.PNG

87 ms

title2.gif

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Aavfd.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Codeamber.org and 7% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (331 ms) relates to the external source Codeamber.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.0 kB (52%)

Content Size

106.9 kB

After Optimization

50.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Aavfd.org main page is 106.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 46.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 24.1 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 6.7 kB, which is 28% 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 19.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 40.8 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. Obviously, AAVFD needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.7 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 30.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (56%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

11

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

Accessibility Review

aavfd.org accessibility score

43

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aavfd.org best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

aavfd.org SEO score

58

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aavfd.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 Aavfd.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 AAVFD. 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: