Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

cyc-net.org

CYC-Net: The International Child and Youth Care Network

Page Load Speed

15.4 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

13.4 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cyc-net.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 13.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cyc-net.org performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.53

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cyc-net.org

1886 ms

AJS.js

1018 ms

AJS_fx.js

765 ms

gb_scripts.js

1031 ms

gb_styles.css

542 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Cyc-net.org, 15% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.6 sec) relates to the external source Reddit.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 739.2 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

935.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Cyc-net.org main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 864.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 133.4 kB

  • Original 176.3 kB
  • After minification 174.5 kB
  • After compression 42.8 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 133.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 79.4 kB

  • Original 592.0 kB
  • After minification 512.6 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, CYC Net needs image optimization as it can save up to 79.4 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 494.2 kB

  • Original 864.0 kB
  • After minification 864.0 kB
  • After compression 369.9 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 494.2 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. Cyc-net.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (51%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CYC Net. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cyc-net.org accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

cyc-net.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cyc-net.org SEO score

80

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

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cyc-net.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cyc-net.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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