Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

varietykc.org

Nonprofit for Kids with Disabilities | Variety KC the Children's Charity

Page Load Speed

23.4 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

22.7 sec

Page Rendered

671 ms

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About Website

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Variety the Children's Charity of Kansas City has been working to help local kids be active, be social and belong for over 80 years. We help families afford new mobility equipment and assistive t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Varietykc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 23.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

varietykc.org performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

varietykc.org

93 ms

varietykc.org

2221 ms

js

97 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

31 ms

css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Varietykc.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.userway.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 584.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Varietykc.org main page is 2.4 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 240.1 kB

  • Original 282.3 kB
  • After minification 269.5 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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 240.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 312.7 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Variety KC needs image optimization as it can save up to 312.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 245.9 kB
  • After minification 245.9 kB
  • After compression 218.4 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 27.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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. Varietykc.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (41%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Variety KC. 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 from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

varietykc.org accessibility score

82

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

varietykc.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

SEO Factors

varietykc.org SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Varietykc.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 Varietykc.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 Variety KC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: