Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

employerscouncil.org

Legal Training and HR Resources - Employers Council

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

553 ms

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

employerscouncil.org screenshot

About Website

Visit employerscouncil.org now to see the best up-to-date Employers Council content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about employerscouncil.org

From the next hire to how to handle COVID-19, nearly 4,000 organizations use Employers Council as their legal, training, and HR resource. Read More!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Employerscouncil.org page load time and found that the first response time was 87 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

employerscouncil.org performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,750 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.employerscouncil.org

87 ms

gtm.js

121 ms

css2

77 ms

style.min.css

55 ms

wppopups.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Employerscouncil.org, 17% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (188 ms) relates to the external source Static.srcspot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.0 kB (29%)

Content Size

687.1 kB

After Optimization

485.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Employerscouncil.org main page is 687.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 306.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 179.7 kB
  • After minification 176.9 kB
  • After compression 47.4 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 132.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 306.5 kB
  • After minification 274.1 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, Employers Council needs image optimization as it can save up to 32.4 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 146.8 kB
  • After minification 146.8 kB
  • After compression 123.5 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 23.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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. Employerscouncil.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (41%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Employers Council. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

employerscouncil.org accessibility score

96

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.

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

employerscouncil.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

employerscouncil.org SEO score

100

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

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 Employerscouncil.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 Employerscouncil.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 Employers Council. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: