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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ncid.us

The National Citizens Initiative for Democracy – NCID

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

118 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncid.us page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncid.us performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncid.us

297 ms

www.ncid.us

2140 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

184 ms

wp-filebase.css

260 ms

style.min.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Ncid.us, 13% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncid.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 176.3 kB (29%)

Content Size

608.8 kB

After Optimization

432.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ncid.us main page is 608.8 kB. 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. Javascripts take 366.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

  • Original 107.7 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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. 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 86.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 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. NCID images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 366.2 kB
  • After minification 362.9 kB
  • After compression 292.0 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 74.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 117.1 kB
  • After minification 113.5 kB
  • After compression 101.3 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. Ncid.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.8 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (79%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NCID. 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 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ncid.us

ncid.us

297 ms

www.ncid.us

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2140 ms

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184 ms

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260 ms

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262 ms

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261 ms

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35 ms

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334 ms

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365 ms

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442 ms

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515 ms

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Accessibility Review

ncid.us accessibility score

98

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

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

Best Practices

ncid.us best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ncid.us SEO score

91

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 Ncid.us 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 Ncid.us 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

ncid.us

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