Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

comw.org

The Commonwealth Institute and the Project on Defense Alternatives at doamin comw.org

Page Load Speed

607 ms in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

316 ms

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

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The Commonwealth Institute is a non-profit, non-governmental public policy research and advocacy organization located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comw.org page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 461 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comw.org performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

comw.org

146 ms

cloudflare.min.js

8 ms

ga.js

8 ms

cwlogo_03.gif

154 ms

show_ads.js

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Comw.org, 21% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 16% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (169 ms) belongs to the original domain Comw.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.6 kB (44%)

Content Size

126.0 kB

After Optimization

70.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Comw.org main page is 126.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 93.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 14.1 kB
  • After minification 14.1 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 9.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 18.5 kB
  • After minification 12.1 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, Comw needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 93.2 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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 40.1 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (29%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Comw. 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.

Accessibility Review

comw.org accessibility score

83

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

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>).

Best Practices

comw.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

comw.org SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Comw.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 Comw.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 Comw. 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: