Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

maketheconnection.net

Make the Connection | Videos & Info for Military Veterans

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

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About Website

Welcome to maketheconnection.net homepage info - get ready to check Make The Connection best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about maketheconnection.net

Connecting Veterans with information, resources, and solutions to issues affecting their health, well-being, and everyday lives.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maketheconnection.net page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

maketheconnection.net performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value23,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

maketheconnection.net

32 ms

www.maketheconnection.net

119 ms

sil3osg.css

187 ms

small.min.css

43 ms

medium.min.css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Maketheconnection.net, 14% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (232 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 319.1 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

783.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Maketheconnection.net main page is 1.1 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. Javascripts take 491.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 43.8 kB

  • Original 51.8 kB
  • After minification 35.6 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 16.2 kB, which is 31% 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 43.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 31.9 kB

  • Original 413.1 kB
  • After minification 381.2 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. Make The Connection images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 223.5 kB

  • Original 491.2 kB
  • After minification 491.0 kB
  • After compression 267.6 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 223.5 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 146.3 kB
  • After minification 146.3 kB
  • After compression 126.5 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. Maketheconnection.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (59%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Make The Connection. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

maketheconnection.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

maketheconnection.net 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

maketheconnection.net SEO score

93

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

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 Maketheconnection.net 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 Maketheconnection.net 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 Make The Connection. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: