Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

cradle.org

Illinois Adoption Agency & Counseling Service | The Cradle

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cradle.org homepage info - get ready to check Cradle best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about cradle.org

The Cradle is an Illinois adoption agency providing adoption counseling, education, support & decades of experience helping make informed adoption decisions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cradle.org page load time and found that the first response time was 147 ms and then it took 1.6 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

cradle.org performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,550 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cradle.org

147 ms

www.cradle.org

224 ms

www.cradle.org

183 ms

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28 ms

css_Pk4_FbXP7_bqq-JtEY2rX0ORm0kcVHT-zxQ2jAndOgI.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Cradle.org, 9% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (271 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (71%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

554.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Cradle.org main page is 1.9 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 169.5 kB

  • Original 207.7 kB
  • After minification 197.1 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 169.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 106.3 kB
  • After minification 97.9 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. Cradle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 846.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 362.1 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 846.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 303.8 kB

  • Original 360.0 kB
  • After minification 352.2 kB
  • After compression 56.2 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. Cradle.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 303.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (58%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cradle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cradle.org accessibility score

53

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

cradle.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cradle.org SEO score

79

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

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

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 Cradle.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 Cradle.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 Cradle. 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: