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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    29% of websites

mediaed.org

Media Education Foundation | educational documentary films | Media Education, Top Educational Documentaries, Documentary

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

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About Website

Welcome to mediaed.org homepage info - get ready to check Media Ed best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about mediaed.org

MEF produces and distributes documentary films and resources to inspire critical thinking about the social, political and cultural impact of American mass media.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mediaed.org page load time and found that the first response time was 173 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mediaed.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,480 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.392

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mediaed.org

173 ms

commerce.cgi

329 ms

reset-fonts-grids.css

127 ms

menu.css

128 ms

mediaed.css

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Mediaed.org, 4% (4 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (763 ms) belongs to the original domain Mediaed.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 550.9 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mediaed.org main page is 1.7 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 5.6 kB, which is 11% 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 38.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 110.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 961.4 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. Media Ed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 280.5 kB

  • Original 432.6 kB
  • After minification 427.4 kB
  • After compression 152.1 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 280.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 121.4 kB

  • Original 139.2 kB
  • After minification 134.3 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. Mediaed.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (27%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

66

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media Ed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mediaed.org

mediaed.org

173 ms

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commerce.cgi

329 ms

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127 ms

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128 ms

mediaed.css

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128 ms

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131 ms

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131 ms

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189 ms

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186 ms

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186 ms

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187 ms

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51 ms

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81 ms

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252 ms

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80 ms

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79 ms

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79 ms

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250 ms

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250 ms

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272 ms

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327 ms

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763 ms

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394 ms

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57 ms

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6 ms

Accessibility Review

mediaed.org accessibility score

81

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

mediaed.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mediaed.org SEO score

70

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mediaed.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Mediaed.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

mediaed.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Media Ed. 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: