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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

v-a-l-s.org

Virginia Legal Support Professionals – Virginia Legal Support Professionals

Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

4 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

About Website

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VALS...the association for legal professionals is open to those persons engaged in work of a legal nature (i.e., paralegal, legal assistant, law office administrator, typist, or clerk) and employed in...

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Key Findings

We analyzed V-a-l-s.org page load time and found that the first response time was 4 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

v-a-l-s.org performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.13

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

v-a-l-s.org

4039 ms

style.css

190 ms

swpm.common.css

306 ms

jquery.js

579 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

267 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to V-a-l-s.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain V-a-l-s.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of V-a-l-s.org main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 934.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 27.5 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 4.6 kB, which is 14% 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 24.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 934.5 kB
  • After minification 931.2 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. V A L S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 240.3 kB

  • Original 347.6 kB
  • After minification 334.0 kB
  • After compression 107.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 240.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 67.1 kB

  • Original 78.1 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. V-a-l-s.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (72%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of V A L S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 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

v-a-l-s.org accessibility score

60

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

v-a-l-s.org best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

v-a-l-s.org SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 V-a-l-s.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 V-a-l-s.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 V A L S. 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: