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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

americansolarworkforce.org

Solar Ready Vets - Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC)

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

698 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americansolarworkforce.org page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americansolarworkforce.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,170 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

248 ms

gtm.js

59 ms

style.min.css

88 ms

style-index.css

38 ms

style.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Americansolarworkforce.org, 6% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (419 ms) relates to the external source Irecusa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 212.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Americansolarworkforce.org main page is 3.5 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. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 122.8 kB
  • After minification 118.5 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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 91.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 75.1 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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 Solar Workforce images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 384.5 kB
  • After minification 384.5 kB
  • After compression 363.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 106.2 kB
  • After minification 104.2 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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. Americansolarworkforce.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.8 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (68%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Solar Workforce. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

americansolarworkforce.org accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

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

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

Best Practices

americansolarworkforce.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

americansolarworkforce.org SEO score

86

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

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 Americansolarworkforce.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 Americansolarworkforce.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 American Solar Workforce. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: