Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

mccscouting.org

Mecklenburg County Council

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

137 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

284 ms

mccscouting.org screenshot

About Website

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The Boy Scouts of America charters local councils to serve specific geographic areas in the US. Our council was chartered in 1915 and is charged with serving the needs of Scouting’s community in Meckl...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mccscouting.org page load time and found that the first response time was 137 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mccscouting.org performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.229

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mccscouting.org

137 ms

www.mccscouting.org

314 ms

bootstrap.min.css

42 ms

main_mecklenburg.css

81 ms

css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Mccscouting.org, 17% (10 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 15% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (952 ms) belongs to the original domain Mccscouting.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Mccscouting.org main page is 3.6 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 101.4 kB

  • Original 113.2 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 47.0 kB, which is 42% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 101.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 102.0 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Mccscouting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 521.4 kB
  • After minification 521.4 kB
  • After compression 487.2 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 39.6 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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. Mccscouting.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (46%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mccscouting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mccscouting.org accessibility score

77

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

mccscouting.org best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

mccscouting.org SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Mccscouting.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 Mccscouting.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 description is not detected on the main page of Mccscouting. 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: