Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

rescue9.org

Lynchburg Life Saving Crew, Volunteer Rescue Squad, Rescue 9

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

571 ms

Page Rendered

166 ms

rescue9.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rescue9.org page load time and found that the first response time was 300 ms and then it took 737 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

rescue9.org performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rescue9.org

300 ms

ic_globals_published.js

89 ms

user.js

51 ms

photoalbum.js

66 ms

template.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Rescue9.org, 11% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Counter.superstats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (300 ms) belongs to the original domain Rescue9.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.8 kB (19%)

Content Size

242.2 kB

After Optimization

196.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Rescue9.org main page is 242.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 191.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 4.8 kB, which is 24% 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 16.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 176.9 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. Rescue 9 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 12.6 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Rescue9.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (17%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rescue 9. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rescue9.org accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rescue9.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

rescue9.org SEO score

62

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rescue9.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 Rescue9.org main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rescue 9. 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: