Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

cherokee.org

Cherokee Nation Home::Cherokee Nation Website

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

cherokee.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to cherokee.org homepage info - get ready to check Cherokee best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about cherokee.org

The Cherokee Nation is the federally-recognized government of the Cherokee people and has inherent sovereign status recognized by treaty and law.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cherokee.org page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cherokee.org performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cherokee.org

159 ms

cherokee.org

243 ms

js

74 ms

gtm.js

114 ms

jquery-3.4.1.min.js

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Cherokee.org, 11% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (371 ms) belongs to the original domain Cherokee.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 450.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Cherokee.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 43.3 kB

  • Original 50.4 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 17.6 kB, which is 35% 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 43.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 963.0 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. Cherokee images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 316.5 kB

  • Original 418.4 kB
  • After minification 356.7 kB
  • After compression 101.9 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 316.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 52.7 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Cherokee.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (24%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cherokee. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cherokee.org accessibility score

70

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

cherokee.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

cherokee.org SEO score

93

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

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 Cherokee.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 Cherokee.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 Cherokee. 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: