Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

handtohold.org

Support for NICU Parents | Hand to Hold | Free Emotional Support

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

512 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Hand To Hold content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about handtohold.org

Hand to Hold® is a national nonprofit that provides personalized emotional support, educational resources and community for NICU parents.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Handtohold.org page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

handtohold.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,790 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

handtohold.org

161 ms

handtohold.org

317 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

20 ms

view.css

58 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Handtohold.org, 19% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (454 ms) relates to the external source Js.hs-banner.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Handtohold.org main page is 5.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 96.1 kB

  • Original 118.1 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 96.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Hand To Hold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 186.3 kB
  • After minification 186.3 kB
  • After compression 177.6 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 135.6 kB
  • After minification 135.4 kB
  • After compression 130.4 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. Handtohold.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (69%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hand To Hold. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

handtohold.org accessibility score

85

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

handtohold.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

handtohold.org SEO score

64

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

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 Handtohold.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 Handtohold.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 Hand To Hold. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: