Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

forensicresources.org

Forensic Resources - North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

205 ms

forensicresources.org screenshot

About Website

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Helping North Carolina’s public defense community understand forensic science evidence and achieve better outcomes for clients.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forensicresources.org page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 1.3 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

forensicresources.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

67/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forensicresources.org

53 ms

forensicresources.org

102 ms

js

132 ms

style-blocks.build.css

28 ms

style.min.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Forensicresources.org, 6% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (730 ms) belongs to the original domain Forensicresources.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.2 kB (25%)

Content Size

423.2 kB

After Optimization

316.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Forensicresources.org main page is 423.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 131.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 89.3 kB

  • Original 107.6 kB
  • After minification 107.1 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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. 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 89.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 89.8 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. Forensic Resources images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 88.2 kB
  • After compression 82.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 131.5 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 125.3 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. Forensicresources.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (91%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forensic Resources. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

forensicresources.org accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

forensicresources.org best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

forensicresources.org SEO score

95

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forensicresources.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 Forensicresources.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 Forensic Resources. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: