Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

volunteerhq.com

International Volunteer HQ | IVHQ | Official Website

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

7 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Volunteerhq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 7 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

volunteerhq.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,330 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.volunteerhq.org

7 ms

www.volunteerhq.org

73 ms

international-volunteer-abroad-ivhq.png

70 ms

main-fd164f18cc76e24ebd10d9fa2a2f28690ab1314e00b224a749afbcb777c3f8b4.css

434 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Volunteerhq.com, 35% (25 requests) were made to Ivhq.imgix.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Volunteerhq.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

908.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Volunteerhq.com main page is 1.1 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 687.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 201.1 kB

  • Original 236.4 kB
  • After minification 200.2 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 36.2 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 201.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 687.4 kB
  • After minification 675.1 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. Volunteer HQ images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 127.4 kB
  • After minification 127.4 kB
  • After compression 126.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 72.0 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. Volunteerhq.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (40%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Volunteer HQ. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

volunteerhq.com accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

volunteerhq.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

volunteerhq.com 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 Volunteerhq.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 Volunteerhq.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 data is detected on the main page of Volunteer HQ. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: