Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

speakforyourself.org

Speak For Yourself AAC | Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app: Changing the world, one voice at a time.

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

258 ms

speakforyourself.org screenshot

About Website

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What is Speak for Yourself? Speak for Yourself (SfY) is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) application that was created by speech-language pathologists.  This AAC app turns the iPad i...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Speakforyourself.org page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

speakforyourself.org performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

speakforyourself.org

155 ms

speakforyourself.org

413 ms

style.css

133 ms

js

49 ms

style.min.css

281 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Speakforyourself.org, 48% (47 requests) were made to I.pinimg.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Secure.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (526 ms) belongs to the original domain Speakforyourself.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 159.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

873.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Speakforyourself.org main page is 1.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 687.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 148.3 kB
  • After minification 145.0 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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 117.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 687.2 kB
  • After minification 683.0 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. Speak For Yourself images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 115.9 kB
  • After minification 115.9 kB
  • After compression 98.0 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 17.9 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 81.5 kB
  • After compression 61.6 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. Speakforyourself.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (38%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Speak For Yourself. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

speakforyourself.org accessibility score

94

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

speakforyourself.org best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

speakforyourself.org SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Speakforyourself.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 Speakforyourself.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 Speak For Yourself. 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: