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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

mi-braille.org

Michigan Braille Transcribing Fund (MBTF) | Braille Books, Transcription, Publications

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

480 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mi-braille.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mi-braille.org performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.387

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mi-braille.org

2279 ms

www.mi-braille.org

175 ms

css

20 ms

slicknav.css

38 ms

layout.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Mi-braille.org, 31% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Mi-braille.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mi-braille.org main page is 1.1 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 960.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 14.1 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 10.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 960.2 kB
  • After minification 947.6 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. Mi Braille images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 153.7 kB
  • After minification 153.7 kB
  • After compression 90.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 63.3 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Mi-braille.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (30%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mi Braille. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mi-braille.org

mi-braille.org

2279 ms

www.mi-braille.org

www.mi-braille.org

175 ms

css

css

20 ms

slicknav.css

slicknav.css

38 ms

layout.css

layout.css

71 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

7 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

14 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

24 ms

index.css

index.css

100 ms

jquery.slicknav.js

jquery.slicknav.js

100 ms

doubletaptogo.js

doubletaptogo.js

99 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

10 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

86 ms

logo.png

logo.png

85 ms

logocover.png

logocover.png

85 ms

bg1.jpg

bg1.jpg

175 ms

bg2.jpg

bg2.jpg

218 ms

services-transcription.jpg

services-transcription.jpg

98 ms

services-publication.jpg

services-publication.jpg

116 ms

services-printing.jpg

services-printing.jpg

99 ms

bg4.jpg

bg4.jpg

216 ms

headerbg.png

headerbg.png

43 ms

headerdiv.png

headerdiv.png

48 ms

bg3.jpg

bg3.jpg

165 ms

bg5.jpg

bg5.jpg

142 ms

formarrow.png

formarrow.png

87 ms

logosmall.png

logosmall.png

138 ms

memberships1.png

memberships1.png

141 ms

memberships2.png

memberships2.png

159 ms

memberships3.png

memberships3.png

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memberships4.png

166 ms

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memberships5.png

173 ms

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backtotop.png

179 ms

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collect

collect

36 ms

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js

66 ms

Accessibility Review

mi-braille.org accessibility score

78

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

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

mi-braille.org best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mi-braille.org SEO score

97

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

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 Mi-braille.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 Mi-braille.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

mi-braille.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mi Braille. 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: