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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

lwvah.org

Home - League of Women Voters Arlington Heights-Mount Prospect-Buffalo Grove Area

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

697 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lwvah.org page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 1.8 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

lwvah.org performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.628

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lwvah.org

60 ms

lwvah.org

63 ms

js

126 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

9 ms

common_ui.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Lwvah.org, 33% (24 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (415 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 749.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lwvah.org main page is 3.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 53.4 kB

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 53.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 454.0 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Obviously, Lwvah needs image optimization as it can save up to 454.0 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 210.5 kB

  • Original 461.3 kB
  • After minification 454.3 kB
  • After compression 250.7 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 210.5 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 68.9 kB
  • After minification 61.6 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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. Lwvah.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (51%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lwvah. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

lwvah.org accessibility score

81

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lwvah.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

lwvah.org SEO score

77

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

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 Lwvah.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 Lwvah.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 Lwvah. 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: