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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

shepherd.org

Atlanta Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation | Shepherd Center

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

590 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shepherd.org page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shepherd.org performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.146

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shepherd.org

127 ms

www.shepherd.org

360 ms

css

44 ms

main.1710532075.css

301 ms

modernizr.1454511647.js

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Shepherd.org, 9% (4 requests) were made to Content.presspage.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Shepherd.containers.piwik.pro. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Shepherd.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 240.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Shepherd.org main page is 2.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 99.1 kB

  • Original 117.6 kB
  • After minification 89.5 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 28.1 kB, which is 24% 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 99.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 138.6 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Shepherd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (10%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shepherd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

shepherd.org accessibility score

95

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

shepherd.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

shepherd.org SEO score

83

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

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

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 Shepherd.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 Shepherd.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 Shepherd. 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: