Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

irfnet.org

Official Site of the International Road Federation – Better Roads. Better World.

Page Load Speed

12.5 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

12 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

irfnet.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irfnet.org page load time and found that the first response time was 64 ms and then it took 12.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irfnet.org performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.363

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irfnet.org

64 ms

www.irfnews.org

343 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

77 ms

wmsimplecaptcha_style.css

88 ms

widget-calendar-full.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Irfnet.org, 67% (109 requests) were made to Irfnews.org and 14% (22 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.9 sec) relates to the external source Irfnews.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (22%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Irfnet.org main page is 6.3 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 96.4 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 76.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Irfnet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 686.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 356.6 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 686.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 564.3 kB

  • Original 666.3 kB
  • After minification 590.4 kB
  • After compression 102.0 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. Irfnet.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 564.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 95 (62%)

Requests Now

154

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 154 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irfnet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

irfnet.org accessibility score

92

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

irfnet.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

irfnet.org SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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