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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

connexions.org

Connexions Freedom Justice Democracy Community Ecosocialism Alternatives

Page Load Speed

970 ms in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

553 ms

Page Rendered

266 ms

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About Website

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Information about resources and organizations fostering democratization, alternatives, economic justice, environmental responsibility, civil liberties, freedom, and community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connexions.org page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 819 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

connexions.org performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.507

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

connexions.org

151 ms

reset.css

59 ms

article_box.css

60 ms

new_layout.css

126 ms

paypal.png

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Connexions.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (287 ms) belongs to the original domain Connexions.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

420.1 kB

After Optimization

323.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Connexions.org main page is 420.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 321.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.4 kB

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 63.7 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 8.2 kB, which is 11% 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 57.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 321.3 kB
  • After minification 304.3 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. Connexions images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Connexions.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (13%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connexions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

connexions.org

connexions.org

151 ms

reset.css

reset.css

59 ms

article_box.css

article_box.css

60 ms

new_layout.css

new_layout.css

126 ms

paypal.png

paypal.png

84 ms

CxFlagLogo1.gif

CxFlagLogo1.gif

53 ms

connexionsfacebook.jpg

connexionsfacebook.jpg

61 ms

connexionstwitter.jpg

connexionstwitter.jpg

61 ms

donate1.png

donate1.png

87 ms

connexionsfacebook.jpg

connexionsfacebook.jpg

77 ms

connexionstwitter.jpg

connexionstwitter.jpg

77 ms

CxNewsFeeds.htm

CxNewsFeeds.htm

33 ms

CxFlagBanner1.gif

CxFlagBanner1.gif

34 ms

paypal.png

paypal.png

35 ms

BL5899s-Conserving_soil_water_on_Kenyan_farm.jpg

BL5899s-Conserving_soil_water_on_Kenyan_farm.jpg

127 ms

BL5504s-BootontheEarth.jpg

BL5504s-BootontheEarth.jpg

80 ms

BL3406s-Green_Marx.jpg

BL3406s-Green_Marx.jpg

127 ms

2010CG-0372bs-FruitonGround.jpg

2010CG-0372bs-FruitonGround.jpg

162 ms

2011CG-1002cs-CapitalismisKillingUsAll.jpg

2011CG-1002cs-CapitalismisKillingUsAll.jpg

75 ms

BL5735s-SnowdenEdward.jpg

BL5735s-SnowdenEdward.jpg

79 ms

BL0513bs-PalestineBulldozer.jpg

BL0513bs-PalestineBulldozer.jpg

127 ms

BL5679s-JusticeforAll.jpg

BL5679s-JusticeforAll.jpg

223 ms

1r.jpg

1r.jpg

185 ms

2010CG-0029ds-Weathervane.jpg

2010CG-0029ds-Weathervane.jpg

139 ms

BT0438s2-Marx.jpg

BT0438s2-Marx.jpg

199 ms

BL5894-GlobalWealthPyramid.jpg

BL5894-GlobalWealthPyramid.jpg

228 ms

BL5900s-AlbertaTarSands2008.jpg

BL5900s-AlbertaTarSands2008.jpg

197 ms

BL5695s-Smokestacks-Pollution.jpg

BL5695s-Smokestacks-Pollution.jpg

217 ms

Greece-Ukraine-300x170.jpg

Greece-Ukraine-300x170.jpg

232 ms

2011CG-0043s-Snow.JPG

2011CG-0043s-Snow.JPG

244 ms

BL0595-Rosaluxemburg3W.jpg

BL0595-Rosaluxemburg3W.jpg

287 ms

CXWordCloud-128023f.jpg

CXWordCloud-128023f.jpg

265 ms

BL0727s-KeepRight.png

BL0727s-KeepRight.png

206 ms

layout.css

layout.css

247 ms

CxNewsFeeds.css

CxNewsFeeds.css

250 ms

Accessibility Review

connexions.org accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

connexions.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

connexions.org SEO score

62

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

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 Connexions.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 Connexions.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

connexions.org

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