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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

skillsusasd.org

SkillsUSA South Dakota | Tech Career Development, Job Opportunities | Watertown, SD

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

About Website

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

SkillsUSA improves the quality of tech career opportunities in South Dakota through personal, workplace and technical skills development. Call 605.880.2445 or email info@skillsusasd.org to learn more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skillsusasd.org page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skillsusasd.org performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skillsusasd.org

63 ms

ll

133 ms

page.php

250 ms

script.js

81 ms

UX.4.43.8.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Skillsusasd.org, 47% (14 requests) were made to Img1.wsimg.com and 37% (11 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Img1.wsimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.4 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Skillsusasd.org main page is 1.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 176.5 kB

  • Original 202.3 kB
  • After minification 202.3 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 176.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. SkillsUSA SD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 104.4 kB

  • Original 246.3 kB
  • After minification 246.3 kB
  • After compression 141.9 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 104.4 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (54%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SkillsUSA SD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

skillsusasd.org accessibility score

88

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

skillsusasd.org best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

skillsusasd.org SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Skillsusasd.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 Skillsusasd.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 SkillsUSA SD. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: