Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

ourspaceourplace.org

Welcome to Our Space Our Place | Boston area programs for blind youth

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

738 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

ourspaceourplace.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ourspaceourplace.org homepage info - get ready to check Our Space Place best content right away, or after learning these important things about ourspaceourplace.org

OSOP is an organization, offering afterschool and career exploration programs for elementary and high school students in Boston and surrounding towns who are legally blind.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ourspaceourplace.org page load time and found that the first response time was 738 ms and then it took 1.3 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

ourspaceourplace.org performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

88/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ourspaceourplace.org

738 ms

styles.css

72 ms

jquery-1.2.6.min.js

183 ms

bookmark.js

121 ms

styleswitch.js

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Ourspaceourplace.org, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (738 ms) belongs to the original domain Ourspaceourplace.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

93.9 kB

After Optimization

83.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ourspaceourplace.org main page is 93.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 43.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 4.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 43.9 kB
  • After minification 43.9 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. Our Space Place images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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 5.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 851 B

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Ourspaceourplace.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 851 B or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Our Space Place. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ourspaceourplace.org accessibility score

80

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

ourspaceourplace.org best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

ourspaceourplace.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ourspaceourplace.org 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 Ourspaceourplace.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 Our Space Place. 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: