Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

wrf.org

World Research Foundation | Complementary/Integrative Medicine Information & Research

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

528 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

385 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wrf.org page load time and found that the first response time was 528 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wrf.org performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,830 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.926

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wrf.org

528 ms

flexslider.css

220 ms

tipsy.css

220 ms

base.css

246 ms

media.queries.css

240 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Wrf.org, 8% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (528 ms) belongs to the original domain Wrf.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.0 kB (34%)

Content Size

791.8 kB

After Optimization

521.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Wrf.org main page is 791.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 483.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 32.6 kB
  • After minification 27.1 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 5.4 kB, which is 17% 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 25.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 52.6 kB

  • Original 483.0 kB
  • After minification 430.4 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, Wrf needs image optimization as it can save up to 52.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 121.2 kB

  • Original 191.2 kB
  • After minification 167.2 kB
  • After compression 70.0 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 121.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 85.0 kB
  • After minification 64.1 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. Wrf.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (46%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wrf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wrf.org accessibility score

81

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

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

wrf.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

SEO Factors

wrf.org SEO score

91

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

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 Wrf.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 Wrf.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 Wrf. 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: