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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

cares-research.org

Improving the Quality of Life for Veterans | CARES Research

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

177 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing CARES Research content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cares-research.org

CARES is a 501c3 non-profit corporation supporting research and educational activities at the following Veterans' Affairs facilities: Hines - Lovell - Madison

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cares-research.org page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 1.5 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.

Performance Metrics

cares-research.org performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cares-research.org

107 ms

cares-research.org

108 ms

www.cares-research.org

248 ms

js

83 ms

css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Cares-research.org, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (465 ms) belongs to the original domain Cares-research.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cares-research.org main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 705.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 51.0 kB

  • Original 69.8 kB
  • After minification 65.2 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 51.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 532.0 kB
  • After minification 500.7 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. CARES Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 234.9 kB

  • Original 705.5 kB
  • After minification 705.0 kB
  • After compression 470.6 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 234.9 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 57.8 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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. Cares-research.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.8 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (77%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CARES Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cares-research.org

cares-research.org

107 ms

cares-research.org

cares-research.org

108 ms

www.cares-research.org

www.cares-research.org

248 ms

js

js

83 ms

css

css

34 ms

icon-fonts.css

icon-fonts.css

35 ms

slick.css

slick.css

81 ms

grid.css

grid.css

104 ms

style.css

style.css

158 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

133 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

131 ms

rail-navigation.css

rail-navigation.css

135 ms

formee.css

formee.css

133 ms

rateit.css

rateit.css

135 ms

banners.css

banners.css

156 ms

events.css

events.css

159 ms

members.css

members.css

160 ms

news.css

news.css

160 ms

directory.css

directory.css

160 ms

footer.css

footer.css

186 ms

header.css

header.css

181 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

180 ms

documents.css

documents.css

186 ms

datatables.css

datatables.css

187 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

190 ms

jquery-core.js

jquery-core.js

288 ms

jquery-plugins.js

jquery-plugins.js

244 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

218 ms

jquery.cycle2.js

jquery.cycle2.js

219 ms

jquery.rateit.min.js

jquery.rateit.min.js

220 ms

moc.js

moc.js

221 ms

polyfill-loader.js

polyfill-loader.js

245 ms

limittextbox.js

limittextbox.js

246 ms

base.js

base.js

248 ms

shared-controls.js

shared-controls.js

247 ms

externallinks.js

externallinks.js

268 ms

UltimateSpell.core.js

UltimateSpell.core.js

276 ms

url.js

url.js

274 ms

UltimateSpell.functions.js

UltimateSpell.functions.js

273 ms

carousel-scrollable.js

carousel-scrollable.js

274 ms

jquery-functions.js

jquery-functions.js

319 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

34 ms

addthis-loader.js

addthis-loader.js

290 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

angular.js

angular.js

465 ms

angular-animate.js

angular-animate.js

222 ms

banners.js

banners.js

194 ms

navigation.min.js

navigation.min.js

191 ms

responsive-tabs.min.js

responsive-tabs.min.js

190 ms

datatables.min.js

datatables.min.js

211 ms

dataTables.fnPagingInfo.js

dataTables.fnPagingInfo.js

200 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

260 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

190 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

263 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

261 ms

logo.png

logo.png

177 ms

slide-1.jpg

slide-1.jpg

236 ms

aging-banner.png

aging-banner.png

187 ms

mission-dots.png

mission-dots.png

176 ms

Veteran_banner_bkgrd_color.jpg

Veteran_banner_bkgrd_color.jpg

189 ms

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b64c87860a2e4bbabaa6e35fdc898ca81.JPG

188 ms

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6c34e2415c43454ba4abde7495e06c191.JPG

188 ms

Centers_bkgrd_color.jpg

Centers_bkgrd_color.jpg

188 ms

logo-35.png

logo-35.png

213 ms

Membership_web_sticker_2022-2023.png

Membership_web_sticker_2022-2023.png

279 ms

font

font

173 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

80 ms

bg-body.png

bg-body.png

35 ms

Accessibility Review

cares-research.org accessibility score

92

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

[role] values are not valid

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.

Best Practices

cares-research.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cares-research.org SEO score

81

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cares-research.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Cares-research.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

cares-research.org

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