Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

firstinspires.org

FIRST | For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

808 ms

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About Website

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

FIRST is a global robotics community preparing young people for the future and the world’s leading youth-serving nonprofit advancing STEM education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstinspires.org page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstinspires.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstinspires.org

10 ms

www.firstinspires.org

36 ms

all.css

104 ms

css_kShW4RPmRstZ3SpIC-ZvVGNFVAi0WEMuCnI0ZkYIaFw.css

7 ms

css_RABT6UzNfzOPojGYY_7vNsqidd7P-lWkuUqwXaahKxc.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Firstinspires.org, 13% (14 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (849 ms) belongs to the original domain Firstinspires.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (21%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Firstinspires.org main page is 6.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 49.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Obviously, FIRST Inspires needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 408.6 kB
  • After minification 407.9 kB
  • After compression 391.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 527 B

  • Original 230.0 kB
  • After minification 229.9 kB
  • After compression 229.4 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. Firstinspires.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (39%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

50

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FIRST Inspires. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firstinspires.org accessibility score

74

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] values are not valid

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

firstinspires.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

firstinspires.org SEO score

86

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

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 Firstinspires.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 Firstinspires.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 FIRST Inspires. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: