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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

ncsi.com

NCSI - Event planning services specializing in Government Conferences and Expos

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

857 ms

Page Rendered

266 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncsi.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncsi.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,410 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncsi.com

52 ms

screen.css

62 ms

ncsi.css

52 ms

dropdown.css

28 ms

default.advanced.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Ncsi.com, 6% (4 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (495 ms) belongs to the original domain Ncsi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 472.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ncsi.com main page is 2.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 48.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 65.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. NCSI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 326.3 kB

  • Original 506.5 kB
  • After minification 500.9 kB
  • After compression 180.2 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 326.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Ncsi.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (44%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NCSI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ncsi.com

ncsi.com

52 ms

screen.css

screen.css

62 ms

ncsi.css

ncsi.css

52 ms

dropdown.css

dropdown.css

28 ms

default.advanced.css

default.advanced.css

37 ms

jquery-1.8.0.min.js

jquery-1.8.0.min.js

169 ms

jquery.easing.1.2.js

jquery.easing.1.2.js

117 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

91 ms

banners.min.js

banners.min.js

101 ms

jquery.slides.min.js

jquery.slides.min.js

75 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

15 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

7 ms

default.css

default.css

62 ms

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211 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

56 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

50 ms

304.82329a8d4b2c08c86d2d.js

304.82329a8d4b2c08c86d2d.js

12 ms

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containerBackground.png

11 ms

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31 ms

logoLarge.png

logoLarge.png

47 ms

navBg.png

navBg.png

110 ms

nav_eventCalendar.png

nav_eventCalendar.png

75 ms

nav_attendees.png

nav_attendees.png

104 ms

nav_exhibitors.png

nav_exhibitors.png

38 ms

nav-arrow-right.png

nav-arrow-right.png

96 ms

nav_capabilities.png

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61 ms

nav_clients.png

nav_clients.png

69 ms

nav_about.png

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144 ms

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240 ms

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102 ms

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392 ms

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370 ms

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495 ms

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271 ms

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366 ms

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291 ms

contentBackground.png

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323 ms

headerShadow.png

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333 ms

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360 ms

sidebarBackground.png

sidebarBackground.png

357 ms

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385 ms

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391 ms

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455 ms

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445 ms

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416 ms

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403 ms

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414 ms

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418 ms

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430 ms

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430 ms

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466 ms

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484 ms

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22 ms

learnMoreBtn.png

learnMoreBtn.png

436 ms

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186 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

451 ms

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438 ms

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30 ms

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19 ms

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12 ms

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15 ms

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15 ms

print.css

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16 ms

Accessibility Review

ncsi.com accessibility score

66

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

ncsi.com best practices score

77

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ncsi.com 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Ncsi.com 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 Ncsi.com 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

ncsi.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of NCSI. 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: