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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ruraledge.org

RuralEdge Housing & Community Development — Rural Edge

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

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RuralEdge is the premier developer of affordable housing in the Northeast Kingdom. We operate over 600 units of affordable housing. We offer programs to keep community members safely in their homes th...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ruraledge.org page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ruraledge.org performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ruraledge.org

81 ms

ruraledge.org

545 ms

c0e3cf1a-ac6a-4c7c-b777-494916249dfb

345 ms

scripts.3.min.js

24 ms

1c0794db94.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Ruraledge.org, 22% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to App.termly.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (545 ms) belongs to the original domain Ruraledge.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

9.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ruraledge.org main page is 9.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 38.9 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 6.0 kB, which is 15% 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 31.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 224.5 kB

  • Original 9.2 MB
  • After minification 9.0 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. Rural Edge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 666 B

  • Original 105.0 kB
  • After minification 105.0 kB
  • After compression 104.4 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 232 B

  • Original 10.3 kB
  • After minification 10.3 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. Ruraledge.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (22%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rural Edge. 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

ruraledge.org accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Best Practices

ruraledge.org best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ruraledge.org SEO score

89

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 Ruraledge.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 Ruraledge.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 Rural Edge. 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: