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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 33

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

hartfordinstitute.org

Hartford Institute for Religion Research

Page Load Speed

598 ms in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

378 ms

Page Rendered

125 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hartfordinstitute.org page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 503 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hartfordinstitute.org performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hartfordinstitute.org

95 ms

hartsem.css

33 ms

Script.js

86 ms

analytics.js

7 ms

ArrowRight.gif

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Hartfordinstitute.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (95 ms) belongs to the original domain Hartfordinstitute.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.1 kB (63%)

Content Size

162.7 kB

After Optimization

60.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hartfordinstitute.org main page is 162.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 92.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 42.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 16.8 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. Hartford Institute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 92.1 kB
  • After minification 90.0 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 56.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 511 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. Hartfordinstitute.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (37%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hartford Institute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hartfordinstitute.org accessibility score

33

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.

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

hartfordinstitute.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

hartfordinstitute.org SEO score

69

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hartfordinstitute.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 Hartfordinstitute.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Hartford Institute. 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: