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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

neals.org

Northeast Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Consortium | NEALS

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

About Website

Visit neals.org now to see the best up-to-date NEALS content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about neals.org

The mission of NEALS is to accelerate the development of new treatments through innovative research and working collaboratively with people living with ALS and all stakeholders in the ALS research com...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Neals.org page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

neals.org performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

neals.org

36 ms

neals.org

607 ms

gtm.js

75 ms

css2

41 ms

bootstrap-icons.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Neals.org, 28% (10 requests) were made to Vumbnail.com and 17% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (607 ms) belongs to the original domain Neals.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

926.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Neals.org main page is 2.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 885.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 70.0 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.6 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 57.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 757.5 kB
  • After minification 752.8 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. NEALS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 169.5 kB

  • Original 243.0 kB
  • After minification 243.0 kB
  • After compression 73.5 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 169.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 797.3 kB

  • Original 885.2 kB
  • After minification 700.1 kB
  • After compression 87.9 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. Neals.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 797.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (26%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NEALS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

neals.org accessibility score

96

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.

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

neals.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

neals.org SEO score

91

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

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 Neals.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 Neals.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 NEALS. 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: