Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

homelessconnections.net

Homeless Shelter and Low-Income, Affordable Housing Resources - Pillars

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

355 ms

homelessconnections.net screenshot

About Website

Visit homelessconnections.net now to see the best up-to-date Homeless Connections content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about homelessconnections.net

From homelessness to coming home, Pillars provides shelter, support, and solutions to address the housing needs in our community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homelessconnections.net page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homelessconnections.net performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homelessconnections.net

39 ms

pillarsinc.org

115 ms

style.min.css

76 ms

extendify-utilities.css

102 ms

charitable.min.css

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Homelessconnections.net, 68% (102 requests) were made to Pillarsinc.org and 11% (16 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) relates to the external source Pillarsinc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 293.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Homelessconnections.net main page is 2.7 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 99.9 kB

  • Original 122.7 kB
  • After minification 119.5 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 99.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 134.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Homeless Connections images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 986.3 kB
  • After minification 986.2 kB
  • After compression 959.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 314.7 kB
  • After minification 314.2 kB
  • After compression 283.2 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. Homelessconnections.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (80%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homeless Connections. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 51 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homelessconnections.net accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

homelessconnections.net 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

homelessconnections.net SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Homelessconnections.net 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 Homelessconnections.net 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 data is detected on the main page of Homeless Connections. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: