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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

econlowdown.org

Award-winning free resources for K-12 and college classrooms | Econ Lowdown

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

625 ms

Page Rendered

334 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Econlowdown.org page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 959 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

econlowdown.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

econlowdown.org

73 ms

www.econlowdown.org

169 ms

vendor.a09c3b.css

74 ms

home-page.a09c3b.css

60 ms

client

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Econlowdown.org, 35% (11 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Accounts.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (194 ms) belongs to the original domain Econlowdown.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 497.9 kB (55%)

Content Size

902.9 kB

After Optimization

405.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Econlowdown.org main page is 902.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 387.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 40.9 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 8.2 kB, which is 20% 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 32.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 218.1 kB
  • After minification 213.6 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. Econ Lowdown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 246.9 kB

  • Original 387.6 kB
  • After minification 387.6 kB
  • After compression 140.7 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 246.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 213.8 kB

  • Original 256.3 kB
  • After minification 256.3 kB
  • After compression 42.6 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. Econlowdown.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (17%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Econ Lowdown. 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 JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

econlowdown.org

econlowdown.org

73 ms

www.econlowdown.org

www.econlowdown.org

169 ms

vendor.a09c3b.css

vendor.a09c3b.css

74 ms

home-page.a09c3b.css

home-page.a09c3b.css

60 ms

client

client

81 ms

vendor.885452.js

vendor.885452.js

194 ms

home-page.7e5cd1.js

home-page.7e5cd1.js

174 ms

css

css

30 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

118 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

100 ms

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kFDu9SzaXHo5di0wuHLPhCFSBUKBJhoe3HjrOiQk.jpg

38 ms

image-placeholder.svg

image-placeholder.svg

85 ms

online_classrooms.png

online_classrooms.png

85 ms

syllabuses.png

syllabuses.png

39 ms

student_progress.png

student_progress.png

52 ms

Platinum_NAEE_badge.png

Platinum_NAEE_badge.png

98 ms

CSR_badge_2014.png

CSR_badge_2014.png

85 ms

AVA_Platinum_2014.png

AVA_Platinum_2014.png

139 ms

winner_2012.png

winner_2012.png

115 ms

Chunkfive-webfont.woff

Chunkfive-webfont.woff

116 ms

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kFDu9SzaXHo5di0wuHLPhCFSBUKBJhoe3HjrOiQk.jpg

65 ms

syllabuses.png

syllabuses.png

76 ms

student_progress.png

student_progress.png

51 ms

online_classrooms.png

online_classrooms.png

34 ms

image-placeholder.svg

image-placeholder.svg

54 ms

CSR_badge_2014.png

CSR_badge_2014.png

98 ms

Platinum_NAEE_badge.png

Platinum_NAEE_badge.png

22 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

41 ms

EIFLE_badge_2015.png

EIFLE_badge_2015.png

34 ms

winner_2012.png

winner_2012.png

20 ms

AVA_Platinum_2014.png

AVA_Platinum_2014.png

20 ms

Accessibility Review

econlowdown.org accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

econlowdown.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

econlowdown.org SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Econlowdown.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 Econlowdown.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

econlowdown.org

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