Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

lcfamerica.org

Lung Cancer Foundation of America: Research and Awareness

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

350 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

526 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lcfamerica.org page load time and found that the first response time was 350 ms and then it took 5.5 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

lcfamerica.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.379

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lcfamerica.org

350 ms

lcfamerica.org

441 ms

jquery.min.js

125 ms

style.min.css

71 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Lcfamerica.org, 12% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Track.getlighthouse.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.6 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

594.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Lcfamerica.org main page is 1.0 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. 85% 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. CSS take 403.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 78.5 kB

  • Original 99.4 kB
  • After minification 95.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 78.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 349.2 kB
  • After minification 333.3 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. Lcf America images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 174.2 kB
  • After minification 174.2 kB
  • After compression 149.5 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 24.7 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 312.6 kB

  • Original 403.4 kB
  • After minification 403.2 kB
  • After compression 90.8 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. Lcfamerica.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 312.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (73%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lcf America. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lcfamerica.org accessibility score

77

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

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

Best Practices

lcfamerica.org best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

lcfamerica.org SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Lcfamerica.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 Lcfamerica.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 Lcf America. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: