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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

mercyproject.org

Mercy Center Foundation USA | Education for Young Women in Lare, Kenya

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

About Website

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The Mercy Center Foundation USA in Washington DC focuses on educational opportunities for young women in Lare, Kenya and strives to provide clean water, health care and community outreach for people i...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercyproject.org page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 1.7 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

mercyproject.org performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.206

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mercyproject.org

124 ms

mercyproject.org

303 ms

style.css

57 ms

mootools-core.js

123 ms

core.js

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Mercyproject.org, 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (651 ms) belongs to the original domain Mercyproject.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mercyproject.org main page is 1.2 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. 80% 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 770.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 11.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 770.8 kB
  • After minification 755.5 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. Mercy Project images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 320.5 kB
  • After minification 320.5 kB
  • After compression 314.0 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 65.9 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. Mercyproject.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (59%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercy Project. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mercyproject.org accessibility score

88

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mercyproject.org best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mercyproject.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Mercyproject.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 Mercyproject.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 Mercy Project. 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: