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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

shelterforce.org

Shelterforce: Essential Reporting on Affordable Housing Shelterforce

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

820 ms

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to shelterforce.org homepage info - get ready to check Shelterforce best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about shelterforce.org

Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shelterforce.org page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shelterforce.org performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shelterforce.org

81 ms

script.js

44 ms

js

26 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

41 ms

jquery.min.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Shelterforce.org, 11% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (401 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 284.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Shelterforce.org main page is 2.7 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 243.1 kB

  • Original 292.5 kB
  • After minification 286.6 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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 243.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Shelterforce images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 133.7 kB
  • After minification 133.7 kB
  • After compression 125.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (48%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shelterforce. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shelterforce.org

shelterforce.org

81 ms

script.js

script.js

44 ms

js

js

26 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

41 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

41 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

40 ms

unslider.min.js

unslider.min.js

101 ms

jquery.event.move.js

jquery.event.move.js

102 ms

jquery.event.swipe.js

jquery.event.swipe.js

121 ms

advanced.min.js

advanced.min.js

120 ms

conditions.min.js

conditions.min.js

121 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

120 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

6 ms

base.min.js

base.min.js

117 ms

layer.js

layer.js

116 ms

advanced-ads-pro.min.js

advanced-ads-pro.min.js

121 ms

tracking.min.js

tracking.min.js

119 ms

delayed.min.js

delayed.min.js

119 ms

aos.js

aos.js

121 ms

c20d1ab028.js

c20d1ab028.js

115 ms

jarallax.min.js

jarallax.min.js

122 ms

lity.min.js

lity.min.js

120 ms

ofi.min.js

ofi.min.js

126 ms

app-min.js

app-min.js

122 ms

the_content-hook-script.js

the_content-hook-script.js

173 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

125 ms

fSelect.js

fSelect.js

125 ms

fDate.min.js

fDate.min.js

126 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

181 ms

js

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273 ms

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197 ms

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282 ms

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401 ms

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190 ms

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192 ms

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280 ms

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248 ms

logo-mobile.svg

logo-mobile.svg

185 ms

inn-member-badge.svg

inn-member-badge.svg

342 ms

logo-desktop.svg

logo-desktop.svg

136 ms

Mobile-Home-residents-Speaking-by-Robert-Kazar-1200x675.jpg

Mobile-Home-residents-Speaking-by-Robert-Kazar-1200x675.jpg

259 ms

iStock-Wakila-300x178.jpg

iStock-Wakila-300x178.jpg

139 ms

Flickr-Daveburke.com-CC-BY-NC-2.0-Deed.jpg

Flickr-Daveburke.com-CC-BY-NC-2.0-Deed.jpg

241 ms

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243 ms

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ThunderValley-FOR-WEB_727-300x164.gif

208 ms

Housing-in-Dc-photo-by-Mark-Hogan.jpg

Housing-in-Dc-photo-by-Mark-Hogan.jpg

242 ms

Rectangle-Shelterforce-April-2024-scaled-e1714584152193-1200x840.jpg

Rectangle-Shelterforce-April-2024-scaled-e1714584152193-1200x840.jpg

241 ms

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rsw_1023h_682-1.webp

244 ms

United_States_Supreme_Court_2022_SCOTUS_51956417364-300x200.jpg

United_States_Supreme_Court_2022_SCOTUS_51956417364-300x200.jpg

246 ms

Photo-by-Mbolina-via-iStock-1-1-1200x803.jpg

Photo-by-Mbolina-via-iStock-1-1-1200x803.jpg

245 ms

LIHTC-Cover-image-final-1024x597.jpg

LIHTC-Cover-image-final-1024x597.jpg

247 ms

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LIHTCcompliance-1024x683.jpg

247 ms

Kindlewood-Aerial-View-1024x683.jpg

Kindlewood-Aerial-View-1024x683.jpg

253 ms

Flickr-VictoriaPickering-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0-Deed.jpg

Flickr-VictoriaPickering-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0-Deed.jpg

248 ms

Webinar2_nodescription.png

Webinar2_nodescription.png

255 ms

Webinar3_For-covers-YouTube-copy-e1708722671936.png

Webinar3_For-covers-YouTube-copy-e1708722671936.png

251 ms

CoverImage-1200x859.jpg

CoverImage-1200x859.jpg

254 ms

Key-by-iStock-user-cerro_photography-scaled-e1629404198766-300x200.jpg

Key-by-iStock-user-cerro_photography-scaled-e1629404198766-300x200.jpg

256 ms

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__200x200_Homestead-CLT-Full-Color-Logo-Copy.jpg

264 ms

__200x200_HCA-Logo.jpg

__200x200_HCA-Logo.jpg

256 ms

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__200x200_Neighborgood-Logo-FNL_color.jpg

261 ms

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__200x200_CNHED-Logo_Tagline_Official-1.png

354 ms

image-85-scaled.jpg

image-85-scaled.jpg

264 ms

logo-footer.svg

logo-footer.svg

256 ms

wpspin_light.gif

wpspin_light.gif

355 ms

Accessibility Review

shelterforce.org accessibility score

94

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

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>).

Best Practices

shelterforce.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

shelterforce.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

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 Shelterforce.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 Shelterforce.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

shelterforce.org

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