Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

core.score.org

Home page | SCORE

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

620 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Core.score.org page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

core.score.org performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value45.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value34,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.822

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

core.score.org

14 ms

core.score.org

34 ms

www.score.org

66 ms

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130 ms

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131 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Core.score.org, 29% (30 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 16% (16 requests) were made to Score.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source S3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 388.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Core.score.org main page is 8.2 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. 85% 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 7.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 200.5 kB

  • Original 253.3 kB
  • After minification 249.4 kB
  • After compression 52.7 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 200.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 7.6 MB
  • After minification 7.5 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. Core SCORE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 92.0 kB

  • Original 225.1 kB
  • After minification 225.1 kB
  • After compression 133.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 92.0 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 64.4 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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. Core.score.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (63%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Core SCORE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

core.score.org accessibility score

85

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 IDs are not unique

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

core.score.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

core.score.org SEO score

97

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 Core.score.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 Core.score.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 Core SCORE. 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: