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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

globalcitizens.org

Language Immersion Travel | Spanish, French, German | Xperitas

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

598 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globalcitizens.org page load time and found that the first response time was 140 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

globalcitizens.org performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.573

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

globalcitizens.org

140 ms

www.globalcitizens.org

182 ms

css

60 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

52 ms

css_hDauvhkKDUsXP1hjMRkqA6PSaStJeuhMVgZzCN8-O7I.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Globalcitizens.org, 16% (15 requests) were made to Js.arcgis.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Globalcitizens.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (52%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Globalcitizens.org main page is 4.1 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. Javascripts take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 75.9 kB

  • Original 103.2 kB
  • After minification 99.0 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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 75.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 799.4 kB
  • After minification 782.9 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. Globalcitizens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 1.7 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 282.2 kB

  • Original 423.1 kB
  • After minification 420.4 kB
  • After compression 140.8 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. Globalcitizens.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 282.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (55%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Globalcitizens. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 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

globalcitizens.org accessibility score

83

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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 IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

globalcitizens.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

globalcitizens.org SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Globalcitizens.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 Globalcitizens.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 description is not detected on the main page of Globalcitizens. 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: