Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

lca.org.mt

Home - LCA | Local Councils' Association Malta

Page Load Speed

12.5 sec in total

First Response

377 ms

Resources Loaded

11.7 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lca.org.mt page load time and found that the first response time was 377 ms and then it took 12.1 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

lca.org.mt performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value44.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value53,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value71.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lca.org.mt

377 ms

www.lca.org.mt

695 ms

webfont.js

26 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

206 ms

style.min.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Lca.org.mt, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Lca.org.mt.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 625.5 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Lca.org.mt main page is 1.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 802.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 599.6 kB

  • Original 644.0 kB
  • After minification 636.8 kB
  • After compression 44.4 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 599.6 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 802.4 kB
  • After minification 802.4 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. LCA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 143.4 kB
  • After minification 143.4 kB
  • After compression 141.7 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 185.6 kB
  • After minification 181.7 kB
  • After compression 161.4 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. Lca.org.mt needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (82%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LCA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lca.org.mt accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

lca.org.mt best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lca.org.mt SEO score

92

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 Lca.org.mt 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 Lca.org.mt 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 LCA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: