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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

vera.org

Vera Institute

Page Load Speed

742 ms in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

506 ms

Page Rendered

162 ms

vera.org screenshot

About Website

Visit vera.org now to see the best up-to-date Vera content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vera.org

Vera works closely with government and civic leaders to urgently build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen…

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vera.org page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 668 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vera.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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74 ms

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61 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Vera.org, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (176 ms) relates to the external source Fast.fonts.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 868.5 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

679.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vera.org main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 954.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 76.0 kB

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 97.8 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 76.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 321.3 kB
  • After minification 297.8 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. Vera images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 624.5 kB

  • Original 954.4 kB
  • After minification 923.2 kB
  • After compression 329.9 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 624.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 144.4 kB

  • Original 171.5 kB
  • After minification 169.5 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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. Vera.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 144.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (69%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vera. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

vera.org accessibility score

68

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 have valid values

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

vera.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

vera.org SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Vera.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 Vera.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

vera.org

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