Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

globalwitness.org

Investigations and advocacy for climate justice & civic freedoms

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

962 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

906 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Globalwitness.org page load time and found that the first response time was 962 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

globalwitness.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value980 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

globalwitness.org

962 ms

www.globalwitness.org

186 ms

272 ms

60dfbba9c7d5.css

39 ms

6f9d0a92e8f1.css

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Globalwitness.org, 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (962 ms) belongs to the original domain Globalwitness.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (40%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Globalwitness.org main page is 2.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 28.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 843.1 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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, Globalwitness needs image optimization as it can save up to 843.1 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 65.6 kB

  • Original 122.9 kB
  • After minification 122.9 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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 65.6 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 69.5 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 86.6 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. Globalwitness.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Globalwitness. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

globalwitness.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

globalwitness.org best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

globalwitness.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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