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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

nbcc.org

NBCC | National Board for Certified Counselors

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

219 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

510 ms

nbcc.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing NBCC content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nbcc.org

The National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. and Affiliates (NBCC) is a not-for-profit, independent certification organization.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nbcc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 219 ms and then it took 1.8 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

nbcc.org performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nbcc.org

219 ms

api.js

50 ms

bootstrap.css

155 ms

modern-business.css

169 ms

font-awesome.css

207 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Nbcc.org, 6% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (428 ms) belongs to the original domain Nbcc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 527.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nbcc.org main page is 5.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 88.6 kB
  • After minification 70.0 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.6 kB, which is 21% 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 74.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 400.2 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. NBCC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 307.6 kB
  • After minification 307.4 kB
  • After compression 279.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 65.0 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. Nbcc.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (62%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NBCC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nbcc.org

nbcc.org

219 ms

api.js

api.js

50 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

155 ms

modern-business.css

modern-business.css

169 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

207 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

258 ms

mouseover.js

mouseover.js

213 ms

jasny-bootstrap.js

jasny-bootstrap.js

225 ms

footer-styles.css

footer-styles.css

214 ms

calendar.css

calendar.css

211 ms

page-header.css

page-header.css

240 ms

jquery.dataTables.css

jquery.dataTables.css

254 ms

tablegen.css

tablegen.css

252 ms

jasny-bootstrap.css

jasny-bootstrap.css

255 ms

searchbox.css

searchbox.css

310 ms

nbcc-stylesheet.css

nbcc-stylesheet.css

311 ms

modalmenu.css

modalmenu.css

316 ms

message-bar.css

message-bar.css

315 ms

exams.css

exams.css

316 ms

certification-formats.css

certification-formats.css

316 ms

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316 ms

nav-bar.css

nav-bar.css

316 ms

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override-page-header.css

353 ms

sidebar-custom.css

sidebar-custom.css

347 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

css

css

52 ms

css2

css2

157 ms

js

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68 ms

CAPTCHA.js

CAPTCHA.js

395 ms

interactions.js

interactions.js

397 ms

embed.min.js

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185 ms

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396 ms

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344 ms

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bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

379 ms

modern-business.js

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378 ms

rollover.js

rollover.js

380 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

34 ms

css

css

47 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

57 ms

sp.js

sp.js

96 ms

Close-Btn.jpg

Close-Btn.jpg

86 ms

nbcc-long-version.png

nbcc-long-version.png

42 ms

NBCC_short.png

NBCC_short.png

86 ms

NBCC-mobile-icon.jpg

NBCC-mobile-icon.jpg

120 ms

counselors-callout.png

counselors-callout.png

251 ms

applicants-callout.png

applicants-callout.png

301 ms

public-callout.png

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257 ms

ce-providers-callout.png

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325 ms

sme-callout.png

sme-callout.png

327 ms

NBCCAwards.jpg

NBCCAwards.jpg

254 ms

Mission.png

Mission.png

296 ms

Vision.png

Vision.png

303 ms

CCE-Knockout.png

CCE-Knockout.png

301 ms

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302 ms

EBCC-Knockout.png

EBCC-Knockout.png

319 ms

cookie.svg

cookie.svg

316 ms

NBCC-Awards-Website-Banner-Desktop.jpg

NBCC-Awards-Website-Banner-Desktop.jpg

338 ms

NBCC-Awards-Website-Banner-Mobile.jpg

NBCC-Awards-Website-Banner-Mobile.jpg

367 ms

apply-row-bg.png

apply-row-bg.png

332 ms

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sme-row-bg.png

340 ms

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428 ms

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365 ms

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370 ms

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18 ms

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19 ms

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376 ms

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anchor

45 ms

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glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

326 ms

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styles__ltr.css

5 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

12 ms

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24 ms

webworker.js

webworker.js

74 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

13 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

45 ms

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25 ms

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29 ms

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37 ms

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glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf

44 ms

fontawesome-webfont.svg

fontawesome-webfont.svg

42 ms

Accessibility Review

nbcc.org accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

nbcc.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nbcc.org 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

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 Nbcc.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 Nbcc.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

nbcc.org

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