Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

voicesfromthevalley.org

Voices from the Valley — Environmental justice in California's San Joaquin Valley

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

503 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

Welcome to voicesfromthevalley.org homepage info - get ready to check Voices From The Valley best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about voicesfromthevalley.org

VOICES FROM THE VALLEY (formerly “25 Stories from the Central Valley”) uses photos, oral history, theater and the news media to paint a vivid picture of the environmental toxins that “the other Califo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voicesfromthevalley.org page load time and found that the first response time was 503 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voicesfromthevalley.org performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.voicesfromthevalley.org

503 ms

style.css

72 ms

layout.css

128 ms

custom.css

150 ms

www.voicesfromthevalley.org

289 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Voicesfromthevalley.org, 16% (6 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Voicesfromthevalley.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

556.6 kB

After Optimization

502.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Voicesfromthevalley.org main page is 556.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 357.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 20.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 357.1 kB
  • After minification 344.5 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. Voices From The Valley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 149.2 kB
  • After minification 149.2 kB
  • After compression 134.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Voicesfromthevalley.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (77%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Voices From The Valley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

voicesfromthevalley.org accessibility score

83

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

voicesfromthevalley.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

voicesfromthevalley.org SEO score

64

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

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 Voicesfromthevalley.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 Voicesfromthevalley.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 Voices From The Valley. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: