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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

soundandstory.org

Home | Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

111 ms

soundandstory.org screenshot

About Website

Welcome to soundandstory.org homepage info - get ready to check Sound And Story best content right away, or after learning these important things about soundandstory.org

The Sound and Story Project records the stories of everyday people. We host workshops, create pod-casts, speak at conferences, and design community audio programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soundandstory.org page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soundandstory.org performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soundandstory.org

67 ms

www.soundandstory.org

638 ms

jquery1.js

46 ms

jquery2.js

89 ms

hoverIntent.js

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Soundandstory.org, 13% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (678 ms) belongs to the original domain Soundandstory.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

844.2 kB

After Optimization

807.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soundandstory.org main page is 844.2 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. 80% 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 434.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 33.8 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. 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 26.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 434.1 kB
  • After minification 434.1 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. Sound And Story images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 301.4 kB
  • After minification 301.4 kB
  • After compression 294.6 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 70.1 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. Soundandstory.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (43%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sound And Story. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

soundandstory.org

soundandstory.org

67 ms

www.soundandstory.org

www.soundandstory.org

638 ms

jquery1.js

jquery1.js

46 ms

jquery2.js

jquery2.js

89 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

41 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

42 ms

site_javascript.js

site_javascript.js

45 ms

jquerycss.css

jquerycss.css

44 ms

main.css

main.css

663 ms

displaytop_js.js

displaytop_js.js

61 ms

login.php

login.php

678 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

6 ms

btn_donate_SM.gif

btn_donate_SM.gif

23 ms

rw_1733845.png

rw_1733845.png

21 ms

rw_1755360.jpg

rw_1755360.jpg

46 ms

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rw_1893023.jpg

61 ms

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rw_1878136.jpg

59 ms

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rw_1738214.jpg

46 ms

rw_1893020.jpg

rw_1893020.jpg

77 ms

rw_1741317.jpg

rw_1741317.jpg

63 ms

rw_1739663.jpg

rw_1739663.jpg

99 ms

all.js

all.js

16 ms

all.js

all.js

7 ms

57 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

5 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

38 ms

bottomframe_550.gif

bottomframe_550.gif

21 ms

qyxxN-F0Q_s

qyxxN-F0Q_s

103 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

9 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

23 ms

base.js

base.js

45 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

117 ms

UCY5Klx_0fJhMytIltuKLUwnjJON9GWedkq6jjIrpW0.js

UCY5Klx_0fJhMytIltuKLUwnjJON9GWedkq6jjIrpW0.js

75 ms

embed.js

embed.js

26 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

87 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

87 ms

id

id

16 ms

Create

Create

68 ms

Accessibility Review

soundandstory.org accessibility score

73

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

soundandstory.org best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

soundandstory.org SEO score

69

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

Document uses plugins

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 Soundandstory.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 Soundandstory.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

soundandstory.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sound And Story. 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: