Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

thetwilightbrigade.com

The Twilight Brigade - Death, Dying and End of Life Support - Compassion in Action

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

807 ms

Page Rendered

340 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Twilight Brigade content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thetwilightbrigade.com

The Twilight Brigade is a trained corps of volunteers that visits terminally ill patients in Veterans' Hospitals and hospices. We are Compassion in Action!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thetwilightbrigade.com page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thetwilightbrigade.com performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.313

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thetwilightbrigade.com

140 ms

grid-24-860.css

41 ms

style.php

83 ms

snappages.v1.min.css

78 ms

jslider.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Thetwilightbrigade.com, 9% (4 requests) were made to A.collective-media.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (262 ms) belongs to the original domain Thetwilightbrigade.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 520.3 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

882.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Thetwilightbrigade.com 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 872.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 70.6 kB
  • After minification 70.0 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 50.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 197.2 kB

  • Original 872.9 kB
  • After minification 675.8 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, The Twilight Brigade needs image optimization as it can save up to 197.2 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 225.2 kB

  • Original 400.4 kB
  • After minification 400.4 kB
  • After compression 175.2 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 225.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 54.3 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Thetwilightbrigade.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (50%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Twilight Brigade. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thetwilightbrigade.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

thetwilightbrigade.com SEO score

62

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thetwilightbrigade.com 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 Thetwilightbrigade.com 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 The Twilight Brigade. 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: