Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

eldercare.org

Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

eldercare.org screenshot

About Website

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

The state and federally-designated agency providing information & services to older people & younger people with disabilities in Somerville & Cambridge MA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eldercare.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eldercare.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eldercare.org

1448 ms

style.css

154 ms

plum.css

60 ms

toolbar.css

142 ms

style.css

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Eldercare.org, 5% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Adultfamilycare.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Eldercare.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 539.9 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

777.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Eldercare.org main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 584.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. 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 64.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 584.2 kB
  • After minification 519.7 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, Elder Care needs image optimization as it can save up to 64.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 149.5 kB

  • Original 301.1 kB
  • After minification 291.8 kB
  • After compression 151.6 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 149.5 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 261.6 kB

  • Original 352.2 kB
  • After minification 299.8 kB
  • After compression 90.6 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. Eldercare.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (49%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elder Care. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eldercare.org accessibility score

93

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

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

eldercare.org best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

eldercare.org SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eldercare.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Eldercare.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 data is detected on the main page of Elder Care. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: