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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

ccaf.io

CCAF Digital Tools - Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

388 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ccaf.io page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 1.5 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

ccaf.io performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ccaf.io

329 ms

css

45 ms

materialdesignicons.min.css

31 ms

lite-vimeo-embed

29 ms

lite-vimeo-embed@0.3.0

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Ccaf.io, 9% (3 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (742 ms) belongs to the original domain Ccaf.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 474.8 kB (50%)

Content Size

946.3 kB

After Optimization

471.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Ccaf.io main page is 946.3 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 521.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 368.2 kB

  • Original 425.0 kB
  • After minification 423.7 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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 368.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 106.7 kB

  • Original 521.4 kB
  • After minification 414.7 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, CCAF needs image optimization as it can save up to 106.7 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (31%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CCAF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ccaf.io accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

ccaf.io 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ccaf.io SEO score

74

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 Ccaf.io 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 Ccaf.io 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 description is not detected on the main page of CCAF. 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: