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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

rubythroat.org

Everything About Hummingbirds--"Operation RubyThroat:The Hummingbird Project"

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

829 ms

Page Rendered

158 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rubythroat.org page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 987 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rubythroat.org performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rubythroat.org

225 ms

rubythroat.org

246 ms

widgets.js

8 ms

hit.php

361 ms

ORTLogoGrayTile01.jpg

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Rubythroat.org, 14% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (361 ms) relates to the external source Cutercounter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.9 kB (34%)

Content Size

37.6 kB

After Optimization

24.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Rubythroat.org main page is 37.6 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 16.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 13.6 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 10.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 14.5 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. Ruby Throat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ruby Throat. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

rubythroat.org

rubythroat.org

225 ms

rubythroat.org

rubythroat.org

246 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

8 ms

hit.php

hit.php

361 ms

ORTLogoGrayTile01.jpg

ORTLogoGrayTile01.jpg

65 ms

ORTLogoBird.GIF

ORTLogoBird.GIF

124 ms

ORTLogoText2.gif

ORTLogoText2.gif

186 ms

MapNAm01t.GIF

MapNAm01t.GIF

268 ms

ORTTitleDefault01.gif

ORTTitleDefault01.gif

269 ms

AnimateArrowRight01.gif

AnimateArrowRight01.gif

269 ms

SaundersElizabeth01.jpg

SaundersElizabeth01.jpg

270 ms

AwardStudySphere.gif

AwardStudySphere.gif

270 ms

AwardClassroomConnect.gif

AwardClassroomConnect.gif

270 ms

AwardCoolScience.gif

AwardCoolScience.gif

303 ms

LogoHiltonPond01.gif

LogoHiltonPond01.gif

305 ms

LogoGLOBE01.jpg

LogoGLOBE01.jpg

305 ms

LogoComporium02.jpg

LogoComporium02.jpg

310 ms

donatenowlogo2.gif

donatenowlogo2.gif

310 ms

LogoiGive.gif

LogoiGive.gif

311 ms

BuWriting02.gif

BuWriting02.gif

361 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

29 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

35 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

31 ms

settings

settings

169 ms

x-click-but04.gif

x-click-but04.gif

13 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

2 ms

embeds

embeds

31 ms

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

24 ms

Accessibility Review

rubythroat.org accessibility score

52

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rubythroat.org best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

rubythroat.org SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rubythroat.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 Rubythroat.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

rubythroat.org

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