Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

houstonredcross.org

Houston RedCross - Votre santé avant tout

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

3.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

385 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houstonredcross.org page load time and found that the first response time was 3.2 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houstonredcross.org performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houston

3211 ms

fullcalendar.css

75 ms

style.css

44 ms

g.js

23 ms

socialize.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Houstonredcross.org, 7% (9 requests) were made to Farm2.staticflickr.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Embed.widencdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Redcross.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Houstonredcross.org main page is 2.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 994.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 186.3 kB

  • Original 207.8 kB
  • After minification 119.0 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 88.7 kB, which is 43% 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 186.3 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 81.2 kB

  • Original 976.1 kB
  • After minification 894.9 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. Houston Red Cross images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 714.1 kB

  • Original 994.1 kB
  • After minification 872.6 kB
  • After compression 280.0 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 714.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 207.4 kB

  • Original 244.7 kB
  • After minification 236.3 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Houstonredcross.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 207.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (57%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houston Red Cross. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

houstonredcross.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

houstonredcross.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

SEO Factors

houstonredcross.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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houstonredcross.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Houstonredcross.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 Houston Red Cross. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: