Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

gen-we.com

Generation WE: A Generation 95 Million People Strong

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

757 ms

Page Rendered

127 ms

gen-we.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gen We content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gen-we.com

Generation We-the Millennials-has arrived. They have emerged as a powerful political and social force. Their huge numbers and progressive attitudes are already changing America. And the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gen-we.com page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 884 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gen-we.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.074

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gen-we.com

213 ms

jquery.js

96 ms

master.js

74 ms

css_f5fd5e4040469d22639ae107b92ee099.css

148 ms

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Gen-we.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (308 ms) belongs to the original domain Gen-we.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.8 kB (21%)

Content Size

382.3 kB

After Optimization

303.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Gen-we.com main page is 382.3 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 227.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 13.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 227.2 kB
  • After minification 220.6 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. Gen We images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 85.6 kB
  • After minification 84.1 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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 17.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 41.5 kB

  • Original 50.4 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Gen-we.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (29%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gen We. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gen-we.com accessibility score

55

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

gen-we.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gen-we.com SEO score

54

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Gen-we.com 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 Gen-we.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of Gen We. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: