Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

us.mensa.org

American Mensa

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

229 ms

us.mensa.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Us Mensa content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about us.mensa.org

With more than 50,000 members, American Mensa is the largest national Mensa operating under the auspices of Mensa International, Ltd.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Us.mensa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

us.mensa.org performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

us.mensa.org

2178 ms

default.css

78 ms

typography.css

81 ms

site.css

112 ms

fancybox.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Us.mensa.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Us.mensa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 496.1 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Us.mensa.org 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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 37.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 382 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Us Mensa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 357.0 kB

  • Original 507.2 kB
  • After minification 496.4 kB
  • After compression 150.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 357.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 101.0 kB

  • Original 119.4 kB
  • After minification 74.3 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Us.mensa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 101.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (53%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Us Mensa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

us.mensa.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

us.mensa.org best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

us.mensa.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Us.mensa.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 Us.mensa.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 Us Mensa. 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: