Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

apsfa.org

APS Foundation of America, Inc. | Antiphospholipid Syndrome - APS

Page Load Speed

966 ms in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

612 ms

Page Rendered

224 ms

apsfa.org screenshot

About Website

Visit apsfa.org now to see the best up-to-date APS Fa content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about apsfa.org

The APS Foundation of America, Inc. is the only United States nonprofit health agency dedicated to bringing national awareness to Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (APS), the major cause of multiple ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apsfa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 836 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apsfa.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.775

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apsfa.org

130 ms

apsfa.css

12 ms

btn_donateCC_LG.gif

73 ms

addthis_widget.js

58 ms

q

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Apsfa.org, 8% (4 requests) were made to A.collective-media.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (467 ms) relates to the external source Honcode.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 324.5 kB (53%)

Content Size

611.1 kB

After Optimization

286.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Apsfa.org main page is 611.1 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. Javascripts take 414.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 47.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 121.4 kB
  • After minification 107.4 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. Obviously, APS Fa needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 260.2 kB

  • Original 414.8 kB
  • After minification 414.8 kB
  • After compression 154.6 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 260.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 844 B

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. Apsfa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (30%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of APS Fa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apsfa.org accessibility score

57

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

apsfa.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

apsfa.org SEO score

76

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Apsfa.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 Apsfa.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 APS Fa. 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: