Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theassist.org

The African Sports & Scholastic Initiative for Students in Townships

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

716 ms

Page Rendered

352 ms

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About Website

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The African Sports & Scholastic Initiative for Students in Townships, or the ASSIST, is an organization in Johannesburg, South Africa, aimed at fostering a positive environment for youth in order to b...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theassist.org page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 1.1 sec 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

theassist.org performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theassist.org

35 ms

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47 ms

legacy.js

23 ms

modern.js

30 ms

extract-css-runtime-d1d5d14293b0a58a3d66-min.en-US.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theassist.org, 42% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 35% (9 requests) were made to Assets.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) relates to the external source Images.squarespace-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (13%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

7.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Theassist.org main page is 8.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 56.8 kB
  • After minification 51.6 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 43.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 6.6 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Theassist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 1.1 MB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (67%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theassist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theassist.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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

theassist.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

theassist.org SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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