Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gwct.org

Goodwill | Goodwill of Western & Northern Connecticut

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

856 ms

gwct.org screenshot

About Website

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Goodwill of Western and Northern Connecticut strengthens communities by helping people with disabilities and other disadvantages maximize independence through job training and other support services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gwct.org page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gwct.org performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value48.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value23,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gwct.org

20 ms

www.gwct.org

1924 ms

jquery.js

148 ms

61800f0f8199460c3c21245f5352d8895b31b435.css

173 ms

js

325 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Gwct.org, 14% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Gwct.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 838.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.6 MB

After Optimization

8.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Gwct.org main page is 9.6 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 9.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 92.3 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.3 kB, which is 31% 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 80.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 388.3 kB

  • Original 9.0 MB
  • After minification 8.6 MB

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. Gwct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 239.0 kB
  • After minification 239.0 kB
  • After compression 118.8 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 120.2 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 249.6 kB

  • Original 299.5 kB
  • After minification 295.1 kB
  • After compression 49.9 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. Gwct.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (51%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gwct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gwct.org accessibility score

84

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

gwct.org best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

gwct.org SEO score

86

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

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 Gwct.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 Gwct.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 Gwct. 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: