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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

signbank.org

SignBank Site: SignWriting Software for Writing Sign Languages

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

998 ms

Page Rendered

471 ms

signbank.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Signbank.org page load time and found that the first response time was 318 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

signbank.org performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.657

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

signbank.org

318 ms

analytics.js

52 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

107 ms

SignBank_Logo_Small_2.jpg

84 ms

ASLWikipedia.jpg

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Signbank.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (679 ms) belongs to the original domain Signbank.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

656.9 kB

After Optimization

570.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Signbank.org main page is 656.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 545.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 82.1 kB

  • Original 90.6 kB
  • After minification 69.7 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 20.9 kB, which is 23% 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 82.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 545.3 kB
  • After minification 540.9 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. Sign Bank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sign Bank. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

signbank.org

signbank.org

318 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

52 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

Logo_25wht.gif

107 ms

SignBank_Logo_Small_2.jpg

SignBank_Logo_Small_2.jpg

84 ms

ASLWikipedia.jpg

ASLWikipedia.jpg

141 ms

RAND_Keyboard_Small.png

RAND_Keyboard_Small.png

142 ms

SignMaker_2015_1.jpg

SignMaker_2015_1.jpg

520 ms

SignPuddleOnline.jpg

SignPuddleOnline.jpg

302 ms

SignPuddle15a.jpg

SignPuddle15a.jpg

229 ms

SignPuddle10a.jpg

SignPuddle10a.jpg

156 ms

documentmakerlogo1.jpg

documentmakerlogo1.jpg

413 ms

documentmakerlogo2.jpg

documentmakerlogo2.jpg

350 ms

10a.gif

10a.gif

231 ms

Enter.jpg

Enter.jpg

303 ms

BrochureSPServers.jpg

BrochureSPServers.jpg

306 ms

index03.jpg

index03.jpg

447 ms

PocketPuddle.jpg

PocketPuddle.jpg

377 ms

index54.jpg

index54.jpg

379 ms

index04a.jpg

index04a.jpg

416 ms

index05.gif

index05.gif

451 ms

sbiconarrow1.gif

sbiconarrow1.gif

453 ms

sbiconarrow4.gif

sbiconarrow4.gif

478 ms

SignBank72dpi01.jpg

SignBank72dpi01.jpg

547 ms

searchgoogle4.gif

searchgoogle4.gif

521 ms

mwsitepuddle_nowords2.jpg

mwsitepuddle_nowords2.jpg

525 ms

Steve_Slevinski_05.png

Steve_Slevinski_05.png

527 ms

software2.jpg

software2.jpg

544 ms

Delegs_Editor_Student_Thumbnail.jpg

Delegs_Editor_Student_Thumbnail.jpg

591 ms

SignWriterStudio2.jpg

SignWriterStudio2.jpg

594 ms

SymbolBank1.jpg

SymbolBank1.jpg

605 ms

downloads2.jpg

downloads2.jpg

606 ms

Wikipedia_Incubator_ASE_Thumbnail.jpg

Wikipedia_Incubator_ASE_Thumbnail.jpg

610 ms

Wikipedia_Incubator_BZS_Thumbnail.jpg

Wikipedia_Incubator_BZS_Thumbnail.jpg

612 ms

Wikipedia_Incubator_TSE_Thumbnail.jpg

Wikipedia_Incubator_TSE_Thumbnail.jpg

664 ms

mwsite_Symposium_no_border.png

mwsite_Symposium_no_border.png

668 ms

SignWriting_Logo_Small_2.jpg

SignWriting_Logo_Small_2.jpg

678 ms

DanceWriting_Logo_Small.jpg

DanceWriting_Logo_Small.jpg

679 ms

MovementWriting_Logo_Small.jpg

MovementWriting_Logo_Small.jpg

677 ms

mwsiteVal_nowords.jpg

mwsiteVal_nowords.jpg

678 ms

Accessibility Review

signbank.org accessibility score

63

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

signbank.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

signbank.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Signbank.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 Signbank.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

signbank.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sign Bank. 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: