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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

iandrinstitute.org

IRI USC

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

115 ms

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The Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California is a non-partisan educational and research organization dedicated to the study of direct democracy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iandrinstitute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 402 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Iandrinstitute.org rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

iandrinstitute.org performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.iandrinstitute.org

402 ms

cfform.js

151 ms

masks.js

147 ms

default.css

153 ms

owl-carousel.css

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Iandrinstitute.org, 7% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (576 ms) belongs to the original domain Iandrinstitute.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.6 kB (53%)

Content Size

311.0 kB

After Optimization

147.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iandrinstitute.org main page is 311.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 199.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 18% 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 16.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 80.4 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. Iandrinstitute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 139.0 kB

  • Original 199.9 kB
  • After minification 175.4 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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 139.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 5.5 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Iandrinstitute.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (19%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iandrinstitute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.iandrinstitute.org

www.iandrinstitute.org

402 ms

cfform.js

cfform.js

151 ms

masks.js

masks.js

147 ms

default.css

default.css

153 ms

owl-carousel.css

owl-carousel.css

153 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

151 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

576 ms

owl-carousel.js

owl-carousel.js

507 ms

usc-logo.png

usc-logo.png

151 ms

header.png

header.png

151 ms

li-arrow.png

li-arrow.png

152 ms

for-the-many.png

for-the-many.png

158 ms

educ-by-initiative.png

educ-by-initiative.png

152 ms

direct-democracy-europe.jpg

direct-democracy-europe.jpg

157 ms

iandr-almanac.jpg

iandr-almanac.jpg

157 ms

Battle%20Over%20Citizen%20Lawmaking%20Cover_small.jpg

Battle%20Over%20Citizen%20Lawmaking%20Cover_small.jpg

156 ms

Democracy%20How%20Direct%20-%20Abrams_small.gif

Democracy%20How%20Direct%20-%20Abrams_small.gif

156 ms

Gerber%20-%20Populist%20Paradox_small1.gif

Gerber%20-%20Populist%20Paradox_small1.gif

216 ms

Schmidt_small1.jpg

Schmidt_small1.jpg

224 ms

elldem_small.jpg

elldem_small.jpg

226 ms

law-of-direct-democracy.jpg

law-of-direct-democracy.jpg

225 ms

pdf-icon.png

pdf-icon.png

227 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

224 ms

us-map.png

us-map.png

356 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

39 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

36 ms

timeline.d11f7a3b3287fb94220e8ee6d03cc772.js

timeline.d11f7a3b3287fb94220e8ee6d03cc772.js

79 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

syndication

syndication

118 ms

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679078462787751937

296 ms

Accessibility Review

iandrinstitute.org accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

iandrinstitute.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

SEO Factors

iandrinstitute.org SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iandrinstitute.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 Iandrinstitute.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

iandrinstitute.org

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