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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

policynetwork.org

Policy Network - The international ideas exchange for progressives

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

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About Website

Welcome to policynetwork.org homepage info - get ready to check Policy Network best content right away, or after learning these important things about policynetwork.org

More than just a thinktank, our network spans national borders, aim of promoting the best progressive thinking on the major social and economic challenges.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Policynetwork.org page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

policynetwork.org performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

policynetwork.org

78 ms

policynetwork.progressivebritain.org

773 ms

styles.min.css

32 ms

css

67 ms

style.min.css

52 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 Policynetwork.org, 78% (39 requests) were made to Policynetwork.progressivebritain.org and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (773 ms) relates to the external source Policynetwork.progressivebritain.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

788.2 kB

After Optimization

714.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Policynetwork.org main page is 788.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 488.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 38.6 kB
  • After minification 38.6 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 31.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 488.9 kB
  • After minification 478.9 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. Policy Network images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 222.9 kB
  • After minification 222.9 kB
  • After compression 190.8 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 32.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 37.8 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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. Policynetwork.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (45%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Policy Network. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

policynetwork.org

policynetwork.org

78 ms

policynetwork.progressivebritain.org

policynetwork.progressivebritain.org

773 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

32 ms

css

css

67 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

52 ms

styles.css

styles.css

52 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

52 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

65 ms

main.js

main.js

64 ms

js

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204 ms

embed.js

embed.js

65 ms

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163 ms

index.js

index.js

162 ms

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161 ms

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logo.png

78 ms

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header-actions-search.png

79 ms

header-actions-menu.png

header-actions-menu.png

79 ms

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close.png

80 ms

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80 ms

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79 ms

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80 ms

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81 ms

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82 ms

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84 ms

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82 ms

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84 ms

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316 ms

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400 ms

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335 ms

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292 ms

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294 ms

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350 ms

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529 ms

wp-polyfill-element-closest.min.js

wp-polyfill-element-closest.min.js

549 ms

wp-polyfill-object-fit.min.js

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539 ms

js

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89 ms

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analytics.js

164 ms

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120 ms

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415 ms

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23 ms

Accessibility Review

policynetwork.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.

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

policynetwork.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

policynetwork.org SEO score

86

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

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 Policynetwork.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 Policynetwork.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

policynetwork.org

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