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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

vacap.org

Community Action Network | Virginia Community Action Partnership

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vacap.org page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vacap.org performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.116

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vacap.org

179 ms

www.vacap.org

398 ms

style.min.css

133 ms

style.dev.css

342 ms

css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Vacap.org, 26% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (457 ms) belongs to the original domain Vacap.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

988.2 kB

After Optimization

691.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vacap.org main page is 988.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 455.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 45.9 kB

  • Original 57.3 kB
  • After minification 53.7 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 45.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 89.6 kB

  • Original 455.5 kB
  • After minification 365.9 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. Obviously, Vacap needs image optimization as it can save up to 89.6 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 87.5 kB

  • Original 263.7 kB
  • After minification 263.7 kB
  • After compression 176.2 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 87.5 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 73.4 kB

  • Original 211.7 kB
  • After minification 211.7 kB
  • After compression 138.3 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. Vacap.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.4 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (65%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vacap. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

vacap.org accessibility score

84

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.

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

vacap.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

vacap.org SEO score

93

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