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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

firstsigns.org

Developmental disability, early intervention, developmental delays, autism screening and early intervention autism : First Signs

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

657 ms

Page Rendered

200 ms

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About Website

Visit firstsigns.org now to see the best up-to-date First Signs content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about firstsigns.org

First Signs® is the leader in early identification and intervention of children with developmental delays and disorders.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstsigns.org page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 857 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstsigns.org performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.242

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstsigns.org

178 ms

styles.css

104 ms

Nav.js

72 ms

si.js

56 ms

sm_tested2.gif

336 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 Firstsigns.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Smarticon.geotrust.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Securitymetrics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (336 ms) relates to the external source Securitymetrics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.1 kB (33%)

Content Size

97.8 kB

After Optimization

65.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstsigns.org main page is 97.8 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 61.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 3.0 kB, which is 17% 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 13.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 58.4 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. First Signs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 5.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Firstsigns.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (47%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Signs. 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

firstsigns.org

firstsigns.org

178 ms

styles.css

styles.css

104 ms

Nav.js

Nav.js

72 ms

si.js

si.js

56 ms

sm_tested2.gif

sm_tested2.gif

336 ms

smarticon

smarticon

45 ms

FirstSignsLogo.gif

FirstSignsLogo.gif

37 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

36 ms

JavaScriptMessageBg.jpg

JavaScriptMessageBg.jpg

37 ms

HomePageAd_05-06-10.gif

HomePageAd_05-06-10.gif

216 ms

Home_WhoWeAre_Spacer1.gif

Home_WhoWeAre_Spacer1.gif

66 ms

Home_WhoWeAre.jpg

Home_WhoWeAre.jpg

99 ms

Home_WhoWeAre_Spacer2.gif

Home_WhoWeAre_Spacer2.gif

68 ms

Home_Concerns.jpg

Home_Concerns.jpg

82 ms

Home_Screening_Spacer2.gif

Home_Screening_Spacer2.gif

68 ms

Home_Screening.jpg

Home_Screening.jpg

128 ms

Home_Bar_BG.jpg

Home_Bar_BG.jpg

120 ms

Home_Treatments.jpg

Home_Treatments.jpg

119 ms

Home_WhoWeAreText.gif

Home_WhoWeAreText.gif

120 ms

Home_ConcernsText.gif

Home_ConcernsText.gif

149 ms

Home_ScreeningText.gif

Home_ScreeningText.gif

152 ms

Home_TreatmentsText.gif

Home_TreatmentsText.gif

153 ms

Home_WhoWeAre_Spacer1_Over.gif

Home_WhoWeAre_Spacer1_Over.gif

45 ms

Home_WhoWeAre_Over.jpg

Home_WhoWeAre_Over.jpg

38 ms

Home_WhoWeAreText_Over.gif

Home_WhoWeAreText_Over.gif

38 ms

Home_Screening_Over.jpg

Home_Screening_Over.jpg

36 ms

Home_Concerns_Over.jpg

Home_Concerns_Over.jpg

35 ms

Home_Treatments_Over.jpg

Home_Treatments_Over.jpg

37 ms

Home_ScreeningText_Over.gif

Home_ScreeningText_Over.gif

67 ms

Home_ConcernsText_Over.gif

Home_ConcernsText_Over.gif

68 ms

Home_TreatmentsText_Over.gif

Home_TreatmentsText_Over.gif

69 ms

Accessibility Review

firstsigns.org accessibility score

78

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

firstsigns.org best practices score

67

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

firstsigns.org SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firstsigns.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 Firstsigns.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

firstsigns.org

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