Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ifes.org

The International Foundation for Electoral Systems: IFES

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

940 ms

Page Rendered

972 ms

ifes.org screenshot

About Website

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

The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) supports citizens' rights to participate in free and fair elections.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ifes.org page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 1.9 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

ifes.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,080 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.805

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ifes.org

80 ms

css_jL0cBWYYJJ4GTy8RX1ilLaOm9ia53mOhP8Gez1hR-WY.css

42 ms

css_x5Uo6emN7nfQSjdEijfP2Syu3qRMp-ZDKm16uw1ionI.css

33 ms

font-awesome.min.css

42 ms

css_-ipPmsXkIM7Xra5u0sdTEGscVbUQTF1Jb_4FCrqqtR4.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Ifes.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.amcharts.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (310 ms) relates to the external source Static.addtoany.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (9%)

Content Size

12.5 MB

After Optimization

11.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Ifes.org main page is 12.5 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. 75% 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 11.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 326.9 kB

  • Original 391.5 kB
  • After minification 373.7 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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 326.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 710.5 kB

  • Original 11.5 MB
  • After minification 10.8 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. IFES images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 513.8 kB
  • After minification 512.8 kB
  • After compression 490.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 124.4 kB
  • After minification 124.4 kB
  • After compression 92.0 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. Ifes.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (80%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IFES. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 65 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ifes.org accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ifes.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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ifes.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 Ifes.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 Ifes.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 IFES. 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: