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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

nationalsoftskills.org

National Soft Skills Association - Research and best practices in Soft Skills

Page Load Speed

925 ms in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

620 ms

Page Rendered

180 ms

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About Website

Visit nationalsoftskills.org now to see the best up-to-date National Soft Skills content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nationalsoftskills.org

The National Soft Skills Association was created for the dissemination of research and best practices in the assessment and teaching of soft skills.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalsoftskills.org page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 800 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationalsoftskills.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.3

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nationalsoftskills.org

125 ms

www.nationalsoftskills.org

193 ms

layout.css

26 ms

style.css

34 ms

style.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalsoftskills.org, 11% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Fast.wistia.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (193 ms) belongs to the original domain Nationalsoftskills.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

640.3 kB

After Optimization

612.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nationalsoftskills.org main page is 640.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 486.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 32.5 kB
  • After minification 31.9 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. 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 24.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 394 B

  • Original 61.2 kB
  • After minification 60.8 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. National Soft Skills images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 486.6 kB
  • After minification 486.6 kB
  • After compression 485.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 59.9 kB
  • After minification 59.9 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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. Nationalsoftskills.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (65%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Soft Skills. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nationalsoftskills.org

nationalsoftskills.org

125 ms

www.nationalsoftskills.org

www.nationalsoftskills.org

193 ms

layout.css

layout.css

26 ms

style.css

style.css

34 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

39 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

35 ms

css

css

54 ms

addtoany.min.css

addtoany.min.css

30 ms

page.js

page.js

81 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

50 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

45 ms

addtoany.min.js

addtoany.min.js

50 ms

responsive-menu.js

responsive-menu.js

50 ms

E-v1.js

E-v1.js

52 ms

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

80 ms

api.js

api.js

81 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

107 ms

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3mbm4kuksq

13 ms

nssa-logo.png

nssa-logo.png

96 ms

iStock_000023333989Small.jpg

iStock_000023333989Small.jpg

17 ms

Soft-Skills-Pyramid.png

Soft-Skills-Pyramid.png

95 ms

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S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

23 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

27 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

34 ms

sm.25.html

sm.25.html

15 ms

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eso.D0Uc7kY6.js

89 ms

swatch

swatch

8 ms

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NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffBzCGItzZg.ttf

5 ms

Accessibility Review

nationalsoftskills.org accessibility score

95

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

nationalsoftskills.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationalsoftskills.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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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