Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

rooflines.org

Shelterforce: The Original Voice of Community Development

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

533 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

rooflines.org screenshot

About Website

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Shelterforce covers topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rooflines.org page load time and found that the first response time was 533 ms and then it took 5.7 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

rooflines.org performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rooflines.org

533 ms

sba4igy.js

127 ms

www.rooflines.org

134 ms

thickbox.css

830 ms

jquery.min.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Rooflines.org, 20% (18 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 13% (12 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Nhi.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 391.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Rooflines.org main page is 2.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 194.3 kB

  • Original 226.6 kB
  • After minification 218.9 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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 194.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 60.2 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Rooflines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 89.2 kB
  • After compression 51.2 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 38.0 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 99.2 kB

  • Original 121.4 kB
  • After minification 118.8 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Rooflines.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (45%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rooflines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rooflines.org accessibility score

96

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.

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

rooflines.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rooflines.org SEO score

90

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rooflines.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 Rooflines.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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