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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

donorschoose.org

DonorsChoose: Support a classroom. Build a future.

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

867 ms

Page Rendered

349 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Donors Choose content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about donorschoose.org

DonorsChoose connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Donorschoose.org page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

donorschoose.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,200 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.245

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.donorschoose.org

20 ms

general.css

40 ms

home.css

49 ms

jquery.min.js

65 ms

general.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Donorschoose.org, 38% (15 requests) were made to Cdn.donorschoose.net and 13% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (728 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.donorschoose.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

979.4 kB

After Optimization

930.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Donorschoose.org main page is 979.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 519.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 49.9 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 7.6 kB, which is 13% 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 45.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 711 B

  • Original 360.1 kB
  • After minification 359.4 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. Donors Choose images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 519.7 kB
  • After minification 519.7 kB
  • After compression 518.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 580 B

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Donorschoose.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (50%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Donors Choose. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.donorschoose.org

www.donorschoose.org

20 ms

general.css

general.css

40 ms

home.css

home.css

49 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

65 ms

general.js

general.js

75 ms

react.js

react.js

122 ms

redux.js

redux.js

120 ms

signin-overlay.js

signin-overlay.js

119 ms

home.js

home.js

120 ms

emailContactSignUpWidget.js

emailContactSignUpWidget.js

119 ms

svgxuse.js

svgxuse.js

4 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

154 ms

heap-2017425730.js

heap-2017425730.js

297 ms

icon-junior.svg

icon-junior.svg

117 ms

dc.js

dc.js

191 ms

us-48890d71-82a4-442a-b441-8278a285c298.js

us-48890d71-82a4-442a-b441-8278a285c298.js

229 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

201 ms

donorschoose@2x.png

donorschoose@2x.png

134 ms

corner-tapestry@2x.png

corner-tapestry@2x.png

134 ms

footer-logos@2x.png

footer-logos@2x.png

728 ms

icon-social.svg

icon-social.svg

132 ms

geoip2.js

geoip2.js

151 ms

js

js

241 ms

SharpSans-Bold.woff

SharpSans-Bold.woff

64 ms

SharpSans-Semibold.woff

SharpSans-Semibold.woff

60 ms

impact.json

impact.json

44 ms

server.html

server.html

95 ms

collect

collect

37 ms

collect

collect

37 ms

collect

collect

17 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

111 ms

localstorage.js

localstorage.js

61 ms

js

js

66 ms

container.js

container.js

3 ms

releasesettings

releasesettings

34 ms

auryc.lib.js

auryc.lib.js

5 ms

siteconfig

siteconfig

34 ms

Accessibility Review

donorschoose.org accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

donorschoose.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

donorschoose.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 Donorschoose.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 Donorschoose.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

donorschoose.org

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Donors Choose. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: