Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

rackhamchoir.org

Rackham Choir | Detroit's Oldest Choir – Since 1949

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

965 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rackhamchoir.org page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rackhamchoir.org performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value47.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rackhamchoir.org

80 ms

rackhamchoir.org

116 ms

prettyPhoto.css

63 ms

wp-video-lightbox.css

166 ms

slick.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Rackhamchoir.org, 8% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Rackhamchoir.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (9%)

Content Size

18.8 MB

After Optimization

17.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Rackhamchoir.org main page is 18.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 18.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 83.4 kB
  • After minification 80.0 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 66.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 18.3 MB
  • After minification 16.8 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. Rackham Choir images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 320.1 kB
  • After minification 320.1 kB
  • After compression 313.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 61.2 kB
  • After minification 61.2 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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. Rackhamchoir.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.7 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (41%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rackham Choir. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rackhamchoir.org accessibility score

91

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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

rackhamchoir.org best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

rackhamchoir.org SEO score

86

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

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 Rackhamchoir.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 Rackhamchoir.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 Rackham Choir. 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: