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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gdn.int

Global Development Network | Local Research for Better Lives

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

445 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gdn.int page load time and found that the first response time was 445 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gdn.int performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,230 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gdn.int

445 ms

system.base.css

240 ms

system.menus.css

244 ms

system.messages.css

244 ms

system.theme.css

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Gdn.int, 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (523 ms) belongs to the original domain Gdn.int.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gdn.int main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 53.7 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 19.5 kB, which is 36% 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 46.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 111.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Gdn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 142.3 kB
  • After minification 140.5 kB
  • After compression 129.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 39.4 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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. Gdn.int needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (65%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gdn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gdn.int

gdn.int

445 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

240 ms

system.menus.css

system.menus.css

244 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

244 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

246 ms

comment.css

comment.css

244 ms

field.css

field.css

244 ms

node.css

node.css

288 ms

search.css

search.css

293 ms

user.css

user.css

293 ms

views.css

views.css

294 ms

ckeditor.css

ckeditor.css

294 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

295 ms

animate.css

animate.css

338 ms

dexp-menu.css

dexp-menu.css

342 ms

dexp-mobile-menu.css

dexp-mobile-menu.css

343 ms

meanmenu.min.css

meanmenu.min.css

343 ms

style.css

style.css

343 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

396 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

31 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

39 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

15 ms

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

386 ms

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

391 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

392 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

393 ms

form.js

form.js

393 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

436 ms

dexp_animation.js

dexp_animation.js

441 ms

dexp-menu.js

dexp-menu.js

442 ms

jquery.meanmenu.min.js

jquery.meanmenu.min.js

444 ms

responsive_menus_mean_menu.js

responsive_menus_mean_menu.js

444 ms

googleanalytics.js

googleanalytics.js

447 ms

js

js

79 ms

collapse.js

collapse.js

485 ms

dexp_shortcode_bxslider.js

dexp_shortcode_bxslider.js

490 ms

form_placeholder.js

form_placeholder.js

491 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

492 ms

gdnweb.js

gdnweb.js

496 ms

js

js

120 ms

fab0ea643f99ec3d7f1ec9d63.js

fab0ea643f99ec3d7f1ec9d63.js

226 ms

buttons.png

buttons.png

260 ms

GDN%20logo%20for%20website%20-%20218x100-01_0.png

GDN%20logo%20for%20website%20-%20218x100-01_0.png

99 ms

home_banner_desktop.jpg

home_banner_desktop.jpg

309 ms

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Evidence%20Fair%20web%20banner.png

191 ms

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106 ms

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107 ms

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209 ms

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202 ms

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208 ms

Education_0.png

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256 ms

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255 ms

Governance_1.png

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258 ms

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257 ms

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307 ms

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306 ms

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354 ms

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Case%20studies-image-10%20-%20high%20res_0.jpg

308 ms

MyriadPro-Regular.otf

MyriadPro-Regular.otf

210 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

26 ms

FontAwesome.otf

FontAwesome.otf

256 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

26 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

523 ms

embed.js

embed.js

7 ms

embed.js

embed.js

15 ms

Accessibility Review

gdn.int accessibility score

84

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

gdn.int best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gdn.int SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Gdn.int 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 Gdn.int 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Gdn. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: