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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

rand.ngo

RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public Policy Analysis | RAND

Page Load Speed

471 ms in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

376 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rand.ngo page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 376 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rand.ngo performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,620 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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95 ms

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25 ms

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75 ms

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6 ms

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18 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rand.ngo, 82% (41 requests) were made to Rand.org and 8% (4 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (147 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

823.8 kB

After Optimization

742.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rand.ngo main page is 823.8 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 411.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 74.9 kB
  • After minification 72.8 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 57.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 966 B

  • Original 312.8 kB
  • After minification 311.8 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. RAND images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 411.9 kB
  • After minification 411.9 kB
  • After compression 389.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 137 B

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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. Rand.ngo has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RAND. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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95 ms

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25 ms

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Accessibility Review

rand.ngo accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

rand.ngo 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rand.ngo SEO score

93

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 Rand.ngo 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 Rand.ngo 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of RAND. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: