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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

usabeat.org

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Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

644 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usabeat.org page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 2 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

usabeat.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,100 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

usabeat.org

36 ms

usabeat.org

65 ms

oj5w.css

34 ms

a4wr0.css

60 ms

oj5w.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Usabeat.org, 40% (21 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (382 ms) belongs to the original domain Usabeat.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 418.5 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

852.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usabeat.org main page is 1.3 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 449.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 155.1 kB

  • Original 182.6 kB
  • After minification 182.1 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 155.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 811 B

  • Original 449.9 kB
  • After minification 449.0 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. USA Beat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 399.5 kB
  • After minification 399.5 kB
  • After compression 334.3 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 65.2 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 197.3 kB

  • Original 239.1 kB
  • After minification 53.6 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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. Usabeat.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 197.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (35%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of USA Beat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

usabeat.org

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65 ms

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Accessibility Review

usabeat.org accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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

Best Practices

usabeat.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

usabeat.org SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Usabeat.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 Usabeat.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

usabeat.org

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