Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

kappasigma.org

A Brotherhood Like No Other - Kappa Sigma Fraternity

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

415 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kappa Sigma content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kappasigma.org

Kappa Sigma is the largest college social fraternity in the world with more than 200,000 living members, including over 17,000 undergraduates and 305 chapters and colonies located throughout the Unite...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kappasigma.org page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kappasigma.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.872

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kappasigma.org

60 ms

kappasigma.org

274 ms

www.kappasigma.org

307 ms

popup_effect.min.css

30 ms

dipi-font.min.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Kappasigma.org, 24% (23 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (11 requests) were made to Kappasig.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (728 ms) relates to the external source Ksfnext.wpengine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Kappasigma.org main page is 1.9 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. 80% 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 213.3 kB

  • Original 256.3 kB
  • After minification 252.8 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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 213.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.2 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. Kappa Sigma images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 227.3 kB
  • After minification 227.3 kB
  • After compression 224.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 261.2 kB
  • After minification 261.2 kB
  • After compression 259.0 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. Kappasigma.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (75%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kappa Sigma. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kappasigma.org accessibility score

90

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

kappasigma.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

kappasigma.org SEO score

100

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

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 Kappasigma.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 Kappasigma.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 Kappa Sigma. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: