Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ctt.org

Charity Digital - Home

Page Load Speed

27 sec in total

First Response

440 ms

Resources Loaded

25.6 sec

Page Rendered

996 ms

ctt.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ctt content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ctt.org

Charity Digital (formerly Tech Trust) was established in 2001 to help other charities be more digital through educational content and the UK's only discounted and donated software program.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctt.org page load time and found that the first response time was 440 ms and then it took 26.6 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

ctt.org performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.261

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ctt.org

440 ms

www.ctt.org

282 ms

www.technology-trust.org

1133 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

784 ms

styles.css

798 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ctt.org, 48% (76 requests) were made to Technology-trust.org and 8% (12 requests) were made to Sumome-140a.kxcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.9 sec) relates to the external source Technology-trust.logo-net.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (43%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ctt.org main page is 4.0 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 60.1 kB

  • Original 77.2 kB
  • After minification 66.7 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.5 kB, which is 14% 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 60.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Ctt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 641.3 kB

  • Original 986.9 kB
  • After minification 952.0 kB
  • After compression 345.6 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 641.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 996.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 112.7 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. Ctt.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 996.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (54%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

71

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ctt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ctt.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.

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

ctt.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ctt.org SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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