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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

next-step.org

Home - Next Step Pregnancy Decision and Support Services

Page Load Speed

855 ms in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

465 ms

Page Rendered

316 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Next-step.org page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 781 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

next-step.org performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

next-step.org

74 ms

next-step.org

33 ms

style.min.css

11 ms

main.css

30 ms

jquery.min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Next-step.org, 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (211 ms) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

966.6 kB

After Optimization

881.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Next-step.org main page is 966.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 752.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 47.5 kB

  • Original 58.4 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 47.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 752.3 kB
  • After minification 747.3 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. Next Step images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 95.5 kB
  • After minification 95.5 kB
  • After compression 74.2 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 21.4 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 60.3 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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. Next-step.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (32%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Next Step. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

next-step.org accessibility score

95

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

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

Best Practices

next-step.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

next-step.org SEO score

86

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

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 Next-step.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 Next-step.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 Next Step. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: