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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thesolarfoundation.org

IREC - Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC)

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

660 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesolarfoundation.org page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesolarfoundation.org performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesolarfoundation.org

38 ms

www.thesolarfoundation.org

90 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

21 ms

styles.css

21 ms

magnific-popup.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (102 requests) were addressed to the original Thesolarfoundation.org, 21% (32 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesolarfoundation.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (15%)

Content Size

21.8 MB

After Optimization

18.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesolarfoundation.org main page is 21.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 19.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 110.6 kB

  • Original 127.4 kB
  • After minification 116.7 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 110.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 19.7 MB
  • After minification 18.1 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. Thesolarfoundation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 459.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 395.3 kB

  • Original 463.1 kB
  • After minification 372.3 kB
  • After compression 67.8 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. Thesolarfoundation.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 395.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (40%)

Requests Now

144

After Optimization

86

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 144 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thesolarfoundation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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90 ms

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Accessibility Review

thesolarfoundation.org accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

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

Best Practices

thesolarfoundation.org best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thesolarfoundation.org SEO score

86

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

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 Thesolarfoundation.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 Thesolarfoundation.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

thesolarfoundation.org

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