Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

safeshores.org

Safe Shores – The DC Children’s Advocacy Center | The DC Children's Advocacy Center

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

safeshores.org screenshot

About Website

Visit safeshores.org now to see the best up-to-date Safe Shores content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about safeshores.org

Safe Shores works with and advocates for children and adolescents in the District of Columbia (DC) that are affected by trauma and violence.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Safeshores.org page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

safeshores.org performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

safeshores.org

140 ms

www.safeshores.org

232 ms

js

54 ms

style-blocks.build.css

24 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Safeshores.org, 11% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (397 ms) belongs to the original domain Safeshores.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Safeshores.org main page is 1.3 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 959.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 83.4 kB

  • Original 104.7 kB
  • After minification 103.4 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 83.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 959.0 kB
  • After minification 959.0 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. Safe Shores images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 101.4 kB
  • After minification 101.0 kB
  • After compression 98.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 168.5 kB
  • After minification 168.5 kB
  • After compression 164.0 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. Safeshores.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (66%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Safe Shores. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

safeshores.org accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

safeshores.org best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

safeshores.org SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Safeshores.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 Safeshores.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 Safe Shores. 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: