Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

naswct.org

NASW-CT - Connecting and Supporting Social Workers in CT

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

naswct.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to naswct.org homepage info - get ready to check NASW CT best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about naswct.org

The CT Chapter of NASW serves social workers in the state of CT through the promotion of social work and social justice.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Naswct.org page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 11.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

naswct.org performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.815

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

naswct.org

41 ms

naswct.socialworkers.org

258 ms

default.css

22 ms

ie.css

56 ms

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Naswct.org, 80% (40 requests) were made to Naswct.socialworkers.org and 12% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (74%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

737.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Naswct.org main page is 2.8 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 103.9 kB

  • Original 141.2 kB
  • After minification 118.8 kB
  • After compression 37.2 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 22.4 kB, which is 16% 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 103.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 262.2 kB
  • After minification 254.4 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. NASW CT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 973.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 343.2 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 973.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 973.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 740.9 kB
  • After compression 103.1 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. Naswct.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 973.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (69%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NASW CT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

naswct.org accessibility score

87

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

naswct.org best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

naswct.org SEO score

92

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 Naswct.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 Naswct.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 NASW CT. 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: