Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

cogawashingtondc.org

Council for Ghanaian Associations (COGA) – Council for Ghanaian Associations (COGA)

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

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About Website

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Council for Ghanaian Associations (COGA) is an umbrella group for all Ghanaian Associations in the Washington Metro Area

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cogawashingtondc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 6.1 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

cogawashingtondc.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cogawashingtondc.org

144 ms

www.cogawashingtondc.org

887 ms

layerslider.css

137 ms

style.min.css

245 ms

styles.css

350 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Cogawashingtondc.org, 15% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (887 ms) belongs to the original domain Cogawashingtondc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 894.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

10.0 MB

After Optimization

9.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Cogawashingtondc.org main page is 10.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 134.2 kB
  • After minification 133.3 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. 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 108.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 494.3 kB

  • Original 9.1 MB
  • After minification 8.6 MB

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. COGA Washingtondc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 215.0 kB

  • Original 600.6 kB
  • After minification 600.2 kB
  • After compression 385.6 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 215.0 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 76.7 kB

  • Original 204.5 kB
  • After minification 204.5 kB
  • After compression 127.8 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. Cogawashingtondc.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.7 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (71%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of COGA Washingtondc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cogawashingtondc.org accessibility score

88

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

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

cogawashingtondc.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cogawashingtondc.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 Cogawashingtondc.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 Cogawashingtondc.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 COGA Washingtondc. 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: