Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

columbus.redcross.org

Central & Southern Ohio Region | American Red Cross

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

498 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

987 ms

columbus.redcross.org screenshot

About Website

Visit columbus.redcross.org now to see the best up-to-date Columbus Red Cross content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about columbus.redcross.org

The Central & Southern Ohio Region of the American Red Cross is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides disaster relief and helps people during disasters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Columbus.redcross.org page load time and found that the first response time was 498 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

columbus.redcross.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

central-and-southern-ohio.html

498 ms

css

40 ms

base.min.58e441c9b2f393e7e80fe1a97486d5d1.css

133 ms

components.min.92cf46b69e39185d411578e03f6c3b45.css

108 ms

dependencies.min.js

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Columbus.redcross.org, 24% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 11% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 643.2 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Columbus.redcross.org main page is 2.3 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 102.9 kB

  • Original 117.4 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 25.8 kB, which is 22% 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 102.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Columbus Red Cross images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 510.6 kB

  • Original 798.5 kB
  • After minification 798.5 kB
  • After compression 287.9 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 510.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (43%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Columbus Red Cross. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

columbus.redcross.org accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

columbus.redcross.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

columbus.redcross.org SEO score

84

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Columbus.redcross.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 Columbus.redcross.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 Columbus Red Cross. 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: