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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

irforum.org

Independent Research Forum (IRF): supporting change for a sustainable future | International Institute for Environment and Development

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

545 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

689 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irforum.org page load time and found that the first response time was 545 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irforum.org performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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545 ms

eu_cookie_compliance.script.js

16 ms

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534 ms

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24 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Irforum.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (807 ms) relates to the external source Iied.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

936.0 kB

After Optimization

827.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Irforum.org main page is 936.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 607.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 95.4 kB

  • Original 128.1 kB
  • After minification 117.2 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 95.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 607.2 kB
  • After minification 605.1 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. Ir Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 179.1 kB
  • After minification 178.9 kB
  • After compression 168.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 21.6 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (77%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ir Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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545 ms

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16 ms

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534 ms

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24 ms

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jquery.min.js

30 ms

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31 ms

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55 ms

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30 ms

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38 ms

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50 ms

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72 ms

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60 ms

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70 ms

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78 ms

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72 ms

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86 ms

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101 ms

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113 ms

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112 ms

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115 ms

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120 ms

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123 ms

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123 ms

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126 ms

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111 ms

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113 ms

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112 ms

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113 ms

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112 ms

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112 ms

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114 ms

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114 ms

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112 ms

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119 ms

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108 ms

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109 ms

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120 ms

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49 ms

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469 ms

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488 ms

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503 ms

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538 ms

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554 ms

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66 ms

Accessibility Review

irforum.org accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

irforum.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

irforum.org SEO score

90

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 Irforum.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 Irforum.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

irforum.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ir Forum. 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: