Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

sowic.org

SOWIC - Southern Will County Cooperative for Special Education

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

491 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

286 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sowic.org page load time and found that the first response time was 491 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

sowic.org performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.284

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sowic.org

491 ms

style.min.css

52 ms

foundation-icons.css

73 ms

default.css

73 ms

style.min.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Sowic.org, 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (491 ms) belongs to the original domain Sowic.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sowic.org main page is 1.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 611.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 109.3 kB
  • After minification 108.0 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 93.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 158.9 kB

  • Original 611.1 kB
  • After minification 452.1 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. Obviously, SOWIC needs image optimization as it can save up to 158.9 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 565.2 kB
  • After minification 565.2 kB
  • After compression 565.2 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 854 B

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 84.7 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. Sowic.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (50%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SOWIC. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sowic.org accessibility score

95

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

sowic.org best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sowic.org SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sowic.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Sowic.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 SOWIC. 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: