Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

sirc.org

Social Research - Social Trends Analysis

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

487 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sirc.org page load time and found that the first response time was 487 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sirc.org performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sirc.org

487 ms

normal.css

315 ms

jsapi

23 ms

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

bg5.jpg

396 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Sirc.org, 30% (10 requests) were made to Google.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) belongs to the original domain Sirc.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 313.4 kB (48%)

Content Size

655.4 kB

After Optimization

342.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sirc.org main page is 655.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 411.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 54.4 kB

  • Original 78.0 kB
  • After minification 76.1 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 54.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 130.8 kB
  • After minification 122.2 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. Sirc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 221.2 kB

  • Original 411.8 kB
  • After minification 411.8 kB
  • After compression 190.7 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 221.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Sirc.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sirc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sirc.org accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

sirc.org best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sirc.org SEO score

54

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Sirc.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 Sirc.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 Sirc. 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: