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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

iowamicroloan.org

Iowa Foundation for Microenterprise and Community Vitality

Page Load Speed

885 ms in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

689 ms

Page Rendered

107 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iowamicroloan.org page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 796 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iowamicroloan.org performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iowamicroloan.org

89 ms

www.iowamicroloan.org

224 ms

all.css

38 ms

screen.css

75 ms

logo.gif

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Iowamicroloan.org and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) belongs to the original domain Iowamicroloan.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

190.8 kB

After Optimization

185.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iowamicroloan.org main page is 190.8 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 181.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 4.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 53 B

  • Original 181.7 kB
  • After minification 181.7 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. Iowa Microloan images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 419 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Iowamicroloan.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 419 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (31%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iowa Microloan. 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

iowamicroloan.org

iowamicroloan.org

89 ms

www.iowamicroloan.org

www.iowamicroloan.org

224 ms

all.css

all.css

38 ms

screen.css

screen.css

75 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

141 ms

woman_smile.jpg

woman_smile.jpg

220 ms

woman_3.jpg

woman_3.jpg

148 ms

man_smile.jpg

man_smile.jpg

224 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

40 ms

header_bg.jpg

header_bg.jpg

264 ms

nav_bg.gif

nav_bg.gif

77 ms

nav_item_r_bg.gif

nav_item_r_bg.gif

100 ms

nav_item_l_bg.gif

nav_item_l_bg.gif

109 ms

green_box_top.gif

green_box_top.gif

113 ms

green_box_bottom.gif

green_box_bottom.gif

134 ms

red_check.gif

red_check.gif

145 ms

footer_bg.gif

footer_bg.gif

150 ms

print.css

print.css

38 ms

Accessibility Review

iowamicroloan.org accessibility score

74

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

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

iowamicroloan.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

SEO Factors

iowamicroloan.org SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iowamicroloan.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Iowamicroloan.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

iowamicroloan.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Iowa Microloan. 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: