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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

benton.org

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society | Broadband Delivers Opportunities and Strengthens Communities

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

647 ms

Page Rendered

245 ms

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About Website

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Benton provides the only free, reliable, and non-partisan daily digest that curates and distributes news related to universal broadband. Our goal is to bring open, affordable, high-capacity broadband ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Benton.org page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 892 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

benton.org performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.benton.org

208 ms

fc210ed9146bfb8a1dcf4c1181a1b4e0.css

116 ms

fe89b54abf6593810267b69f937743e3_1.css

111 ms

css_8804ea8878470663e4da9ff6181156c3.css

18 ms

js_3ccfbbf18b0bec91a6113722a45c649b.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Benton.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (208 ms) belongs to the original domain Benton.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 248.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

466.5 kB

After Optimization

218.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Benton.org main page is 466.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 192.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 37.6 kB
  • After minification 37.6 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 28.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 170.7 kB
  • After minification 128.4 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, Benton needs image optimization as it can save up to 42.3 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 192.2 kB
  • After minification 192.2 kB
  • After compression 67.8 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 124.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 52.8 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 64.4 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. Benton.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (35%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Benton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.benton.org

www.benton.org

208 ms

fc210ed9146bfb8a1dcf4c1181a1b4e0.css

fc210ed9146bfb8a1dcf4c1181a1b4e0.css

116 ms

fe89b54abf6593810267b69f937743e3_1.css

fe89b54abf6593810267b69f937743e3_1.css

111 ms

css_8804ea8878470663e4da9ff6181156c3.css

css_8804ea8878470663e4da9ff6181156c3.css

18 ms

js_3ccfbbf18b0bec91a6113722a45c649b.js

js_3ccfbbf18b0bec91a6113722a45c649b.js

36 ms

ga.js

ga.js

111 ms

body-bg.png

body-bg.png

66 ms

header-footer-bg.png

header-footer-bg.png

48 ms

logo.png

logo.png

10 ms

benton-foundation.png

benton-foundation.png

11 ms

google-play-transparent-border.png

google-play-transparent-border.png

13 ms

app-store-transparent-border.png

app-store-transparent-border.png

15 ms

search-button.png

search-button.png

18 ms

nbp-chart-med.png

nbp-chart-med.png

20 ms

main-content-bg.png

main-content-bg.png

21 ms

broadbandinclusion-cover.jpg

broadbandinclusion-cover.jpg

47 ms

libraries-hp.jpg

libraries-hp.jpg

21 ms

partnerships.png

partnerships.png

47 ms

www.png

www.png

44 ms

feed.png

feed.png

47 ms

benton_tiny_icon.gif

benton_tiny_icon.gif

50 ms

charles-hp-slideshow.png

charles-hp-slideshow.png

48 ms

link-dropdown.gif

link-dropdown.gif

46 ms

wait.gif

wait.gif

48 ms

extlink.png

extlink.png

47 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

collect

collect

48 ms

css_6b3f15cd3d7b07ffc20df3e7716aad38.css

css_6b3f15cd3d7b07ffc20df3e7716aad38.css

13 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

42 ms

Accessibility Review

benton.org accessibility score

95

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.

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

benton.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

benton.org SEO score

86

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

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 Benton.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 Benton.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

benton.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Benton. 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: