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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

icesusa.org

ICES Student Exchange and Academic Programs | ICES USA

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Icesusa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms 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

icesusa.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

icesusa.org

25 ms

www.icesusa.org

1873 ms

js

64 ms

the-grid.min.css

14 ms

style.min.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Icesusa.org, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Icesusa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Icesusa.org main page is 2.0 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 116.3 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 140.1 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 116.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. ICES USA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 439.9 kB
  • After minification 439.9 kB
  • After compression 396.3 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 62.8 kB
  • After minification 62.8 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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. Icesusa.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (76%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ICES USA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

icesusa.org

icesusa.org

25 ms

www.icesusa.org

www.icesusa.org

1873 ms

js

js

64 ms

the-grid.min.css

the-grid.min.css

14 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

26 ms

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35 ms

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32 ms

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39 ms

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42 ms

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renew.css

54 ms

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41 ms

rvm_frontend.css

rvm_frontend.css

360 ms

addtoany.min.css

addtoany.min.css

48 ms

www.icesusa.org

www.icesusa.org

56 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

33 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

53 ms

addtoany.min.js

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369 ms

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95 ms

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96 ms

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97 ms

html5.js

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113 ms

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97 ms

js.cookie-2.1.3.min.js

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97 ms

public.js

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98 ms

css

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45 ms

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92 ms

effect.min.js

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95 ms

the-grid.min.js

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96 ms

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92 ms

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96 ms

front.min.js

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97 ms

new-tab.js

new-tab.js

101 ms

nicescroll.js

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104 ms

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107 ms

comment-reply.min.js

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117 ms

core.min.js

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117 ms

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118 ms

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127 ms

slider.min.js

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130 ms

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jquery.ui.touch-punch.js

128 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

134 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

107 ms

page.js

page.js

111 ms

events.js

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113 ms

Logo-ICES-White-text-Transparent-250x250-1.png

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95 ms

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94 ms

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96 ms

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96 ms

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98 ms

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97 ms

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98 ms

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99 ms

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61 ms

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120 ms

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271 ms

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121 ms

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270 ms

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484 ms

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534 ms

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118 ms

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532 ms

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120 ms

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120 ms

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693 ms

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481 ms

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480 ms

banner.js

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479 ms

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480 ms

the_grid.ttf

the_grid.ttf

195 ms

Accessibility Review

icesusa.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

icesusa.org best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

icesusa.org SEO score

84

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Icesusa.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 Icesusa.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

icesusa.org

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