Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

beascout.scouting.org

Be A Scout Home Page - Boy Scouts of America

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

447 ms

beascout.scouting.org screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beascout.scouting.org page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Beascout.scouting.org rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

beascout.scouting.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beascout.scouting.org

81 ms

beascout.scouting.org

189 ms

4889642714.js

227 ms

styles.css

45 ms

font-awesome.min.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Beascout.scouting.org, 13% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Beascout.scouting.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 801.7 kB (20%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Beascout.scouting.org main page is 4.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 27.1 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 4.5 kB, which is 16% 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 19.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 66.0 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Be A Scout Ing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 468.6 kB

  • Original 706.4 kB
  • After minification 704.6 kB
  • After compression 237.8 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 468.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 247.8 kB

  • Original 300.5 kB
  • After minification 295.8 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. Beascout.scouting.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 247.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (37%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Be A Scout Ing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

beascout.scouting.org accessibility score

86

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

beascout.scouting.org best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

beascout.scouting.org SEO score

71

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Beascout.scouting.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 Beascout.scouting.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 description is not detected on the main page of Be A Scout Ing. 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: