Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

virginiasaves.org

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Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

984 ms

Page Rendered

250 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virginiasaves.org page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virginiasaves.org performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virginiasaves.org

76 ms

virginia-saves

36 ms

96 ms

jquery.min.js

43 ms

vendor.min.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Virginiasaves.org, 85% (69 requests) were made to Americasaves.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.aspnetcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (625 ms) relates to the external source 95522e7b122647fe9349b357cf006d62.svc.dynamics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Virginiasaves.org main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 762.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 219.1 kB

  • Original 259.4 kB
  • After minification 190.2 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 69.2 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 219.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 107.0 kB

  • Original 762.6 kB
  • After minification 655.6 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. Obviously, Virginia Saves needs image optimization as it can save up to 107.0 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 431.3 kB

  • Original 691.4 kB
  • After minification 691.4 kB
  • After compression 260.2 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 431.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 658.0 kB

  • Original 759.8 kB
  • After minification 759.4 kB
  • After compression 101.8 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. Virginiasaves.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 658.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (65%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virginia Saves. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

virginiasaves.org accessibility score

75

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

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

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

virginiasaves.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

virginiasaves.org SEO score

97

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 Virginiasaves.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 Virginiasaves.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 Virginia Saves. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: