Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

heron.org

Homepage - Heron Foundation

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

559 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heron.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 2.9 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

heron.org performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.539

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

heron.org

1252 ms

screen.min.css

61 ms

heron.combined.min.js

175 ms

215 ms

analytics.js

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Heron.org, 14% (4 requests) were made to W.soundcloud.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Heron.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (29%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Heron.org main page is 4.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 154.2 kB

  • Original 179.9 kB
  • After minification 137.8 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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 42.1 kB, which is 23% 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 154.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 340.8 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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, Heron needs image optimization as it can save up to 340.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 497.1 kB

  • Original 704.5 kB
  • After minification 704.5 kB
  • After compression 207.4 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 497.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 337.3 kB

  • Original 582.8 kB
  • After minification 582.1 kB
  • After compression 245.4 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. Heron.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 337.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heron. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

heron.org accessibility score

96

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

heron.org best practices score

85

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

heron.org SEO score

79

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

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 Heron.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 Heron.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 description is not detected on the main page of Heron. 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: